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Fishing: people gather to get fish displayed on canoes that have just returned from overnight fishing

Canoes: carved and painted prowboard and splashboard of kula canoe, with white cowrie shells attached

Gardening: woman wearing glasses sits amidst taro, papaya and other food plants

Mortuary ceremony: Bomtavau wearing banana leaf bundle on her head

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

Houses with verandas, typical Trobriand architecture, fishing net hangs from rafters of house (r)

Soccer (football) players in action, ball in the air

Canoe-building: people gathered for dedication of new canoe, men making adjustments to sides of canoe

Kaileuna Island: distant view of beach, village and palm trees

Canoes: women load items onto canoe used for coastal transport, woman (center) holds basket of banana leaf bundles on head

Children, several carrying infants, play on beach

Mortuary ceremony: people with piles of yams, taro, and betel nut to be distributed to mourners