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Mortuary ceremony: mourning woman with banana leaf bundles, she wears a cloth skirt

Mortuary ceremony: women participate in ritual exchange of banana leaf bundles and foods

Canoes: elaborate carved and painted branch-end style prowboard and splashboard on a kula canoe

Kairiru: houses and carved slit drum made from hollowed-out log, next to shoreline

Canoes: women load baskets onto canoe used for coastal transport

Girl in short fiber skirt walks in lagoon near Wawela village at low tide, waves break on edge of coral reef in distance

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women, including anthropologist Annette Weiner, at exchange ritual

Kaiyabai'i pulls her canoe in shallow water to Tukwaukwa village, Kiriwina

Mortuary ceremony: women carry banana leaf bundles (wealth items) to place in exchange

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women count banana leaf bundles for ritual exchange, woman in center wears decorated fiber skirt

Mortuary ceremony: woman with banana leaf bundles (wealth items) for exchange

Man on veranda with a small basket, perhaps for betel nut