Fatu Hiva

Fatu Hiva Hatihev Hiva Oa Kakahau Mea'e Iipona Nuku Hiva Puamau Ua Huka Ua Pou Vaitahu

Fatu Hiva

an island of the Marquesas

 

 

Bay of Virgins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the church

 

seller of batik sarongs

 

 

women of the island

 

 

music making

 


Making of the Tapa cloth from tree bark

 

stripping the bark from the trunk

 

removing the bark

 

pounding it flat

 

preparing to mark the cloth with a design

 

for sale to the tourists


Marquesas Tapa designs

 

tattooed person carving a Tiki

 

outrigger and sea creatures

 

 


 

waiting to load copra on the supply boat

 

copra bags being raised to the ships holdext-alas the boat returns for more

 

crew man with Marquesas tattoos;

copra bags being raised to the ships hold
as the boat returns for more

 

crew man with Marquesas tattoos

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