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and number of mats completed), fine mats, dancing skirts, sugar-cane thatch.
Bark cloth making. Gathering paper mulberry wands, scraping the bark, pounding the bark, using a pattern board, tracing patterns free hand.
Care of clothing. Washing, ironing, ironing starched clothes, sewing, sewing on a machine, embroidering.
Athletics. Climbing palm trees, swimming, swimming in the swimming hole within the reef,[1] playing cricket.
Kava making. Pounding the kava root, distributing the kava, making the kava, shaking out the hibiscus bark strainer.
Proficiency in foreign things. Writing a letter, telling time, reading a calendar, filling a fountain pen.
Dancing.
Reciting the family genealogy.
Index of knowledge of the courtesy language. Giving the chiefs' words for: arm, leg, food, house, dance, wife, sickness, talk, sit. Giving courtesy phrases of welcome, when passing in front of some one.
Experience of life and death. Witnessing of birth, miscarriage, intercourse, death, Cæsarian post-mortem operation.
Marital preferences, rank, residence, age of marriage, number of children.
Index of knowledge of the social organisation. Reason for Cæsarian post-mortem, proper treatment of a chief's bed, exactions of the brother and sister taboo, penalties attached to cocoanut tapui,[2] proper treatment of a kava
- ↑ Swimming in the hole within the reef required more skill than swimming in still water; it involved diving and also battling with a water level which changed several feet with each great wave.
- ↑ Tapui. The hieroglyphic signs used by the Samoans to protect their property from thieves. The tapui calls down an automatic magical penalty upon the transgressor. The penalty for stealing from property protected by the cocoanut tapui is boils.
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