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Child making a garland of small flowers

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women gather for ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles

Smiling older woman with basket of food and bowls carried on her head

Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman with shaved head wearing long fiber skirt and beaded necklaces

Canoes: detail of carved and painted splashboard of kula canoe, includes two witch figures (top)

Woman holds young infant

Woman heats and flattens pandanus leaf over a fire, softening it for use in weaving

Weaving: pregnant woman strips spines from edges of pandanus leaves, fibers spread to dry at left

Woman with betel nut-stained lips and tattooed arm, woven fan on her lap, rolls a cigarette

Smiling girl leans on a house post

Canoe-building: man carves a nipawa (grasshopper) design on prow

Betel nut and coconut palm trees