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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji. Roop Narayan, Suresh Singh, Sanju Prasad, and Sachin Kumar take an afternoon break from cane cutting to drink grog, which is crushed yaqoni root mixed with water. The result is a muddy, non-narcotic liquid with sedative properties
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: On weekends, Roneel Narayan helps his father and the other members of Gang 12 by clearing the brush so that the cane trucks can be loaded and moved. Currently in the seventh grade, he says he wants to attend the University of the South Pacific in Suva to study "whatever my parents can afford"
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Premila Wati Kumar places money into a basket on her cousin's head, as part of a women's celebration during her son's wedding
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  • Cane Cutters
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Cane cutter Basant and Premila Kumar's granddaughters, Ayushi and Shanaya, visiting from Suva, sleep under mosquito netting.
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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji | 2012<br />
Kamal Deo performs the lengha dance at Arvendra and Bhawna’s wedding. Men performing wedding dances dressed as women is tradition in some Indo-Fijian communities. A cane cutter who lives with his wife and daughter, he earns more money as a wedding dancer with the nickname “Gorilla,” in demand throughout Fiji, than he does cutting cane.
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