How do I create a Master Page?

I'm creating a page layout document with each page containing one or two photos on the left side and a bulleted list for each photo on the right. The doc is 150 pages and I'd like to create two different master pages - a one-photo layout and a two-photo layout. I can't find how to create a master page.
I have added guide lines and then duplicate the page and change the photo and text, but I'd love to create a set of master pages. Seems like a good skill to have. Thanks for any help.

The Pages09_UserGuide.pdf does a poor job of explaining how to create a working template with master layouts.
For a start *Chapter 13 Designing Your Own Document Templates* doesn't acknowledge the difference between *Word Processing mode* and *Layout mode* with all instructions being only for Word Processing mode and even those are incomplete.
Pages in *Layout mode* does not have master pages it has what you might call an internal template, with the page layout being inserted from the Pages button on the toolbar or:
+Menu > Insert > Pages > select from thumbnail+
This is like a page duplicator, with none of it being retrospective as far as I can see. Once you insert a page, changing the original Pages layout does not actually change any page based on it. To change an existing Page design you have to remember its name perfectly down to case sensitive and save a new version over the existing version or go to a completely separate menu item to delete and add designs.
You create the Page designs, I hesitate to call them masters, by laying out a sample page and with an object selected on that page:
+Menu > Format > Advanced > Capture Pages… > Name the Page+
Despite the confusing plural in +Capture Pages…+ it only captures the one page with all other options greyed out.
Worse still it does not seem to retain any of the facing page information except for the header and footer, plunking down the page irregardless of whether it is left or right or part of a pair even though it lets you click +Facing Pages+ in the Inspector.
It is hard for me to imagine how they could have created a more muddled, confusing and incomplete arrangement for tasks that were well established on the Mac back in the early 80's when Apple started the DTP revolution 25 years ago.
I am repeating myself but it seems like a product designed by a committee that never uses it.
Peter

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