Taupou of Saluafata

Portrait of the Taupou (maid of the village/high chief's mistress of ceremonies/cheif's daughter) of Saluafata. She is sitting on siapo (decorated tapa cloth) and is wearing an 'ie fuipani (black shaggy skirt) with a seed pod belt, and a bodice of grass and raffia type material. There are dark ribbons on each shoulder, and the Taupou has a headwreath of flowers in her short hair (she is also wearing a gold locket).