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Girl holds a younger child, another girl holds split coconut, both of the younger children wear shell necklaces

Rouna River waterfall near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Canoes: carved and painted prowboard and splashboard on a kula canoe

Young girl, Imala (daughter of Mogiovyeka), wearing short fiber skirt and shell necklace, dabs of betel-nut paste on her cheeks and nose

Mortuary ceremony: mourning women, faces and bodies painted black, beside a basket filed with banana leaf bundles

Western Highlands: garden of sweet potatoes and other crops, house in background

Western Highlands: anthropologist William Heaney

Man wears red hibiscus flowers in hair and smokes a cigarette

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women make ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles and long fiber skirts

Kunagesa, a prominent man in Kula exchanges, holding basket and mashing betel nut with mortar and pestle

Western Highlands: woman wearing colorful net bag (bilum) suspended from head, beaded armband

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women interact at ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles and other valuables