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Smiling baby chews on finger, looks at camera

Weaving: woman makes skirt out of banana leaf fibers, some dyed red, blue or yellow, woman has word tattooed on her chest

Mortuary ceremony: elderly woman, Bomtavau, wearing head cloth carries banana leaf bundle (wealth item) in basket

New mother wearing shell belt and necklace, fiber skirt, flower garland, and skirt valuable on head, and red betel nut paste on face, word tattooed on left arm, marks on body may be skin fungus

Adolescent girl, wearing shell necklace and dashes of betel nut paste on her cheeks, holds a baby on her lap

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women, in long fiber skirts, gather for exchange

Small boat in shallow water, Munuwata Island

Boys play by tree stump next to the Hutchins' house

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: in village center, people wait for procession of mourning women

Young children, Imala (l) with another girl, both wear shell necklaces

Mortuary ceremony: crowd of women gathered for exchange, fiber skirt valuable visible in center

Young child wearing a coin necklace gazes at camera, stands near a woman