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Tongans sail out to the USS Enterprise to sell or trade beads, shells, grass skirts, and mats to the sailors.

ROSARY FOR EACH: Even as their ancestors treasured the amulets about their necks, the natives eagerly accept rosaries brought them by Father Weehan.

MARINE MODEL. . .Bedecked, withh five-and-ten jewelry, grass skirt, walking-cane and with a nickel cigar in his mouth, this Marine artillery-man shows the natives of this South Pacific Island what a Hollywood native looks like. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Dressed in native beads they received from the natives of (Mok Island) the crew traded cigarettes, razor blades, and odd bits of cloth for native handicraft and fruit. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

[Island Encounters 2-0129]