(Duau) The Trobriand Islands, including Kiriwina, Kaileuna, Vakuta and Kitava The Amphlett Islands Woodlark Island (Muyuw, Murua) The Louisiade Archipelago, including Rossell (Yela), Tagula (Sudest, Vanatinai), Misima Samarai, prior to the Second World War a major shipping centre for expeditions between Australia and Southeast Asia, amply described in books by Margaret Mead and her anthropologist second husband Reo Fortune, location of the colonial District Headquarters until 1969 when the new Provincial Capital was moved to Alotau Kwato, Deka Deka Islands, Logea, Saliba, Basilaki, and Sideia The Engineer Islands, including Tubetube and Kwaraiwa Administratively, there are four districts: Alotau District: Alotau town and mainland areas, Esa'ala District: Normanby, Fergusson, Dobu, Sanaroa and other islands Kiriwina-Goodenough District: Goodenough Island and Trobriand Islands Samarai-Murua District: Samarai, Engineer Islands, Louisiade, Calvados Chain and Woodlark Island. Demographics As of the early 20th century, Milne Bay peoples lived in small hamlets, which were dominated by clans. Most clans consisted of relatives, with an integration of adopted and individuals who married into the clan from other clans. Relocation of hamlets was commons, where one, two or three hamlets might combine and relocate together. The culture, was of that time, was matrilineal. Each clan had a totem animal it identified as its own. Totems included snakes, a lizard, a fish, or a bird. One clan, the Tubetube clan, had a non-animal, with a plant as its totem. The snake was identified as one of the most powerful of the totems, as is the bird. People were known for asking "what is your bird?" in reference to what clan someone was a member of. Clans did not build shrines to represent their totems, and people didn't believe to have special power or influence over the animals representing their totems. As of 1904, people were occasionally maintaining the creatures representing their clans as pets, which may have been introduced by Europeans. Bird totem creatures are not considered food. Historically, community members practiced exogamy, which protected clan members from having sexual relations with members of the same clan. Arts and culture Wood carving, historically, has been an important art of the Milne Bay area. The Milne Bay peoples created canoes, called waga. When Charles Gabriel Seligman visited the area in 1904, he described the waga as playing "such an important part in the life of the district," and being a "decorative art" that has "reached its highest expression in the carvings