 | John George Wood - Anthropology - 1870 - 918 pages
...about in all sorts of contorted attitudes, fanning away the flies with flappers made of white masi, and doing all in their power to alleviate the pain....however, comes the reward of all their sufferings. As soon as the wounds are healed, their friends get up a grand dance. As the costume of the male dancers... | |
 | John George Wood - Ethnology - 1870 - 888 pages
...attitudes, ypning away the flies with flappers made of white masi, and doing all in their power to jimate the pain. At last, however, comes the reward of all their sufferings. As soon as •| wounds are healed, their friends get up a grand dance. As the costume of the male •... | |
 | Laulii Willis - 1889 - 304 pages
...time flies with flappers made of white shapo, and doing all in their power to alleviate the paimi. At last, however, comes the reward of all their sufferings,...as men, and by the admiration of the opposite sex. BREAD-FRUIT PRESERVES. These are called by the Samoans, “masi.” When time bread-fruit season has... | |
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... most miserable beings, the wounded parts swollen and inflamed and displaying as yet none of the elegant pattern which has been traced on them. The lads hobble around in all sorts of contorted attitudes, fanning away the flies with flappers made of... 