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The anthropologist, John LeRoy, with his neighbors

Two girls, their skin painted for a ceremony

Adolescent girls in a circle dance

Decorated man, dressed for a ceremonial parade and display, wears headdress with cassowary feathers and a large baler shell

Holding an especially fine pearlshell to glint in the sun, man wears woven armbands and pearlshell pendant

Clayey subsoil, with bark-walled, palm leaf-thatched houses behind

Missionary's trainee reading the New Testament in Pidgin English (Tok Pisin)

Adolescent girls doing a circle dance

Stones are heated for an earth oven, in which various foods, including snakes (seen in foreground), will be cooked, wrapped in banana leaves

Crowd at Erave patrol post watch while Australian flag is lowered, to be replaced by the newly issued Papua New Guinea flag

Shredding a sago palm with an adze, preparing pith for starch extraction

Man with umbrella, carrying a bamboo tube filled with palm oil, an item in ceremonial trade