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Images From The Samoa Islands by Dr. Augustin Kramer, 1901

A village maiden (taupou) in festive attire. She wears the head dress tuiga, compsed of four parts, the three sticks (lave), the ornementation of red parrot feathers ('ie ula), the hair decoration (lauulu) made of bleached human hair, and the forhead ornamentation of nautilus shells (pale fuiono). Around her neck she has a collar of small sperm whale teeth (ulalei) and around ner body are some fine mats ('ie toga) covered by a klit of ti-leaves (titi) such as were formerly worn on the naked body by men in old Samoa.

Reformatted: 4th May 2004
 
 
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