These photographs are examples of some common work activities on Sikaiana in the 1980s. Other common daily activities can be found in the photos of mat making, canoe construction, toddy making, food preparation, and the church.
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- Feeding pigs. A daily chore.
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- Weaving coconut leaf.
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- Weaving coconut leaf. Most common for walling, roofing and baskets.
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- Weaving pandanus walling- rare on Sikaiana.
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- Coconut oil.
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- Coconut oil.
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- Draining coconut oil (lolo), used as a cosmetic and medicine.
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- Making a flower garland (hau).
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- Preparing flowers for a head garland (hau).
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- Carrying roof rafters (pola).
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- House frame from Tempelton-Crocker, 1933
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- House construction.
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- Cleaning fish. Note net in canoe.
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- Repairing a fishing net.
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- Manufactured fishing net.
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- canoes.
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- Bamboo fishing rods used for snagging fish (sseu).
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- Weighing copra
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- Weighing copra.
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- Stuffing copra into bags.
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- Cleaning copra.
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- Cooking coconuts for copra.
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- Taro gardens.
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- Swamp gardens (taluano) for taro (haahaa).
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- Cutting leaves for mulching.
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- Mulching (hakataaute) swamp taro. Leaves are wrapped around each taro stalk.
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- Woman next to taro garden.
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- Garden
