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Western Highlands: smiling woman with face tattoo, holding young child

Young child looking at camera

Fishing: nets with hand-carved wooden floats, some shaped like leaves or small fish

Courtship: young men beautified for courting, they wear feathers, hair ornaments, shell necklaces, red loin cloths, fragrant leaves and flowers

Infant holds a flying disc

Canoes: boys punt along the shoreline in shallow water

Canoes: detail of kula canoe with prow ornament lined with cowries, under a boathouse shelter

Canoes: women load baskets onto canoe in lagoon

Western Highlands: woman digs in a garden, banana trees and other crops

Gardening: fence around a garden of yams and banana trees

Domestic scene: laughing woman cuddles baby, another child in background, other women stand by house

Anthropologist Edwin Hutchins uses tape recorder and takes notes while talking with woman, she carries kettle on her head