Keeping the art form alive in Samoa are many siapo-makers ... a paper mulberry tree from a small patch next to the family's fale. He separates the bark from the trunk and peels the white inner ...

Tapping into one of Samoa's most important cultural ... Under another fale, 20-year-old Maopo Aukusitino works on painting designs on a siapo (also known as tapa), a cloth made from the bark ...

“While women shall bear children, men shall feel the fire of the tatau”- A Samoan proverb The rarely seen process of traditional Samoan tattooing will be open for all to view at The University ...

Hundreds walked through the Old Samoan Parliament House - known as 'Fale Fono' - to pay tribute to one of Samoas last remaining evidence of its fight for independence, which was to be demolished ...

A traditional 'fale' structure on the island of Savaii in Samoa, in the central South Pacific. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Catherine Wilson APIA, Samoa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In many ...