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Lehner P.
1964
Nov. 15 - continued 3
more friends than money and cigarettes ever
could; I would say, take a Polaroid camera
and lots of film - a picture to us is worth
a thousand words, to the native it is worth
a thousand dollars; on every atoll we visited,
the most prized possession was the picture a
native had of himself and his friends; it
even became difficult for the rest of us with
ordinary cameras to escape the accusing looks
of natives whose pictures we had taken, but
whose picture we could not immediately produce;
until they came to understand the difference in
cameras, we were fakes and phonies in their
eyes; if you can give a native a picture of
himself, you have won a friend for life!