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Show PART 1V »»»» THE BEATING AND DECORATING OF BARKPAPER IN TONGA, FIJI, AND SAMOA WHERE THE CRAF HAS BEEN PRESERVED FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL I e coutaeof may invesigtions descebec i the preceding sectin travelledoverfifien thousand d mlevis g ty the Hervey Talinds Hawaitand ofhe e regardingitspracticeat the presenttime ina yof theother, althoughmor remote,islandsof Polynesia. Iwasdisheartened, andfeltthatI hadarrive seventy-fiveara bundred year tolatetose the makingo bl pape undisturbedby the mazchof civlization, whichialwaysdeslzadeat blow tofine abongmzl craf Do reachtogNews Zealani| eacoed that fftheartoftapamaling wer practice in itsoriginal stateanywhere, itwould beinthe Tonga, or Friendl Islands, which I to the south-easto the great iji group,and off the regular of British Samoaand a Tavmmonhe E:,: Islands, but only in smal pieces the la da of March 1926, IleflA cHand for the Tongan Islands er eight daysona small ship arrivedat Nukualofa the chie vxllageontheulandof ‘ongatabu, that is, Tonga the Sacred. T nd el ostatile i o i et A is shape It moon, with the vilageof Nulualof about thecentr and the hassletsofihifo and Hahak at the extrem eislets of Ata oot Tts Boeliy APa i se sirg e ost picturesque groups in the Pacific. These islands constitute on the north-east iesthe Haabai,or Haapai, groupconsistin , thechie ones mgHa:\nu,Fm,L:fuka,Unle Kotu Ulbsjthento the north of Ha ost a day's voyage, lies the Vav i e ‘wasineruption in1853,and wher buta few whit me now resi dzflcngthhthedx inishing native population The Tonga g aboutone hundred and fifty islands, was discovered b Abel Jansen Tasman, th Dutch navigator,in 1643, and was visited b aptain Cook on both his mandan third voyages. He gave the na men i it monaschy, st presen el B e e an i s i mier Lvisited numerousislandsof the Tongan group,and saw practiced ther the old craft of tapa-beating and decorating, much as it was in the days o e ol gl Casleres C o e lestodbo Bt i Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |