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Adolescent girls wearing colorful short fiber skirts, flower garlands, and mourning necklaces

Mortuary ceremony: man divides pork to be presented as part of death exchange

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: ritual exchange takes place in front of mourning houses, piles of banana leaf bundles and fiber skirts are covered

Fishing: canoe returning to inlet near Tukwaukwa, poled by men, children swim out to meet them

Manus: food preparation, men singe bristles off pig and butcher another pig on the ground

Mortuary ceremony, Omarakana: women unfold mats to cover themselves and banana leaf bundles and skirts from rain

Young woman in profile with large ear piercing, holding her hand under running water

Canoes: small fishing canoe stacked on a large kula canoe in canoe-house shelter on the eastern coast of Kiriwina

Man and boy sit on house veranda, kitchen equipment on shelves in background

Edwin and Dona Hutchins sit on veranda of their house in Tukwaukwa village on Kiriwina

Boy holds a baby who looks at the camera with doubtful expression

Mowaroka stands next to bucket and poles from which bark has been removed, bark (background) will be made into tapa