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House-building: men share meal of yams in building under construction

Momwarka's mother, wearing black mourning necklace, stands in doorway of small house, kitchen items above her

Land clearing: men remove trees and bushes from rocky land, preparing for construction

House-building: men build frame for a new house, putting in vertical supports

Canoes: men use poles to move small outrigger, detail of another canoe's platform in foreground

Weaving: Kitemwalusa makes a loosely-woven basket from coconut fronds

Fishing: boy fishes with a hand line while standing on tree branch above waves on the east coast of Kiriwina

Weaving: pregnant woman strips spines from edges of pandanus leaves

Western Highlands: tea plantation employee, Stephen Buntrock

Western Highlands: gateway marked with sharpened poles, probably a group boundary

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: mourning women, their heads shaved, carry banana leaf bundles (wealth items) for ritual exchange

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: smiling girl wears turtle shell earrings and mourning necklace which may hold fingernails or other relics of the deceased