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Edwin Cook with some of the first Narak men to join the Highlands Labour Scheme: Tsinge, Mai Kopi and Taiya

Women carry netbags of food and firewood on trail below garden clearing

Food preparation: man and boys squeeze juice from cooked pandanus fruit into bowls

Gardening: distant view of fenced garden clearings, Kinimbong

Canoes: detail of carved and painted splashboard of kula canoe, includes two witch figures (top)

Woman heats and flattens pandanus leaf over a fire, softening it for use in weaving

Government-sponsored festival in Tabibuga: crowd of people, patrol officer Jack Edwards in distance

Pig festival, pig sacrifice, Tsembaga: ending the festival, fight magic men dispose of cordyline roots (previously buried at gate to dance ground) in direction of enemy territory

Woman holds young infant

Gardening: woman chops pitpit or sugarcane with a stone adze

Men loading sacks of copra onto ship

Pig festival, stake-planting, Tuguma: decorated Tsembaga men with ritual items to expel enemy spirits and establish boundary