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MOANA. A ROMANCE OF THE GOLDEN AGE [1926]

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A sympathetic study of life in Western Samoa, examining aspects of culture and customs such as tattooing of boys for initiation to manhood; fishing; cooking; picking coconuts and making tapa cloth. “Flaherty, along with his wife and family, travelled to the village of Safune on the Samoan island of Savai’i to record the traditional culture of a civilization which was rapidly changing and becom...
Display date:
1926
Location:
United States of America
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MovingImage
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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Producer: Robert J Flaherty
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