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Three Seabees (including two black Americans) barter with local traders for fruit, betel nut, walking sticks, and grass skirts

Navy nurses give a yaws injection to a Micronesian child. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Many Islanders quickly became aware of the trade potential of their traditional arts.

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

Islanders and sailors from the USS Nicholas exchange grass skirts for cigarettes. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Marines Bargaining with Natives [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Jungle Trading Post: Cpl. Robert A. Weeks a former interior decorator the painter who now uses his talent to camouflage Leathneck [sic] mechanized equipment. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Members of the Fijian 3rd Battalion, dressed in traditional dance costume, honor officers of the Allied forces with a kava (yaqona) ceremony. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Two American nurses join in a "native" dance to the amusement of all concerned. [See "more images" below for complete caption]

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]

Lt. Geo A. Rollinsk, supply officer of 193 Inf. dickers with three natives with canes, grass skirts, et cetera, to sell.

Sgt Allen R. Hamm [. . .] paints a mural for the last MarDiv comdr [See "more images" below for complete caption]

Natives of Solomon Island Posing with Seabees from 14th Naval Battalion, Guadalcanal, 1943

[Island Encounters 2-0176]