Word: tapa
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...Capt. Cook that the U. S. territory of Hawaii prepared to celebrate last week. Grass huts were built on Waikiki beach, Honolulu, to show how the natives lived 150 years ago when white man first gazed upon them.* The peaceful tasks of weaving lauhala mats, pounding poi, fashioning tapa cloth were conspicuous in the pageant...
Came Ratu Popi Seniloli, Great Chief of Fiji, who yet takes orders from that greater chief, Sir Eyre Hutson, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Attired in a garment of woven bark (tapa), and resplendent in a necklace of polished whale's teeth,* Great Chief Ratu Popi presented the Duke with the tooth of a sperm whale...