Family group on a house veranda, Urama Island, Gulf Province, January 1923

Here, as in the villages of Goaribari and the lower Fly, the womenfolk live apart from the men; but instead of all being housed together in family groups as I have written of Goaribari, each wife has her own home and there is more of family life as we know it. (Frank Hurley, Diary, 6 January 1923)