Samoan Material Culture |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Types of houses | 11 |
The long guest house | 20 |
Copyright | |
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ali'i angles attached bark cloth basket bast bevel Bishop Museum boom bowl breadfruit butt canoe chipped club coconut leaf commencement Cook Islands cooked cord crossing wefts curved dextral diameter double feet fibre figure fish flange float free weft fringe elements front garment gunwale half hitches handle hole hook inner kava kilt knot lashing leaflet left edge length longitudinal loop lower end material mats method middle line middle ply midrib strip narrow oblique outer overhand knot pair pandanus passed pegs placed plaiting edge plies position projecting purlins reef knot ridgepole right edge rope round Samoan Savaii sennit braid sheet shell siapo side sinistral stick stone strand talking chief talo Tangaloa technique termed thatch rafters thick three-ply braid Tonga transverse turns trap triangular Tutuila twilled twisted Upolu upper surface upwards village wall plate wall posts warp width