siapo

Jan engaged an old woman to teach her how to paint the traditional siapo cloth, and she spent a couple of afternoons doing that, making souvenir placemats for her grandchildren while listening to the hypnotic ocean crash, sipping the local fruit juice, not thinking about much.

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And for the white man were the softest mats and the best pieces of _siapo_ and he lived for nearly the space of two years in the chief's house.

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There were no others living in the house with them, for my father's mother was very poor, and all day long she laboured -- some-times at making mats, and sometimes at beating out _siapo_ (tappa) cloth.

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In the event you walk around the classic normal American Samoan village situated in Tula, you may get to check out locals artfully creating siapo - a traditional Samoan cloth.

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