Girls learn from an early age to perform the dances through which legends are passed down.
Flowers also adorn the neck of a tattooed Yapese man, above right.
Traditionally, the Yapese practice extensive body tattooing. John Waayan remembers the last cow in Yap. All us kids were afraid of it. That was in the 1970s. Waayan didn't see a cow again until he visited California several years ago.