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Food preparation: Ngatuomp building fire at Nemengomp

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

Buka Island, aerial view

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

Tinami, Inland Bunabun: men next to a mission building

Ery Ben, dressed in leaves and mud, clowns with local children

Fainjur: house and unwalled structure near thickly forested steep slope

Aerial view of mountains, river valley, deforested area, village, garden clearings

Hunting: in forest, Akis, in large barkcloth cap, sets snare in tree above

Megiranu, Wanuma Census Division: house with raised doorway, walls of wood heaped between poles

Mortuary ceremony: pregnant woman wearing long fiber skirt, next to piles of fiber skirts and banana leaf bundles (wealth items)

House with pole of coconuts and pole of yams hanging, probably in Chiria (Tsiria) village, Yule Island, Central Province