Lehner, Philip N., 1964-1965
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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!