Visitors of Cultural Centre
Fale, floor mats
Cracking of coconut fruit
Removing outer husk
Right place to open coconut
Cracking of coconut
Grating of the white inner flesh
Coconut cream
Traditioanl manual way.
Palusami, delicious dessert
Taro leaves and coconut cream
Umu, earth oven
Heating the rocks
Fire-heated rocks.
Oven is ready
Food placement for baking.
Breadfruits- first
Bananas and tuna fish
Palusami - on the top
Covering food by leaves
Dish is ready
Bredfruit, tuna fish, bananas, palusami
Striping bark from mulberry tree
Bark of the paper mulberry
Scraping of outer bark
Cleaning of inner bark
Soaking and smoothing of strips with sea shells
Strips thinning
Really hard work.
Little rest is needed
Producing of large sheets.
Beating stage.
Large sheet.
Sheets are drying. Painting preparation.
Painting
Final painting
Drying tapa
Bowl carving
Ornamental carving.
Ceremonial fale
Ceremonial fale, inner space.
Fale at Cultural Centre
Traditional fale - rare structure.
Construction is lashed by sennit - no nails.