Making Clothes

Make your own costume. Unless your white. Then you get to watch someone else make it and take photos. The leaves are ti leaves, which have some mysterious properties relating to fire. Consequentially they're sacred or something along those lines. Contact the guy on the right for details...

Vaka Eiva Canoe Blessing

November 14th 2008
The opening day of the Vaka Eiva was today and one of the things that happens is the canoes are blessed. This is actually pretty much all that happens. I thought it was going to be a usual day building canoes and then attending the ceremony. Nope. At lunch I find out that Mike is supposed to do the blessing. And that I’m to take part. Interesting. My role will be to carry the holy water. ... read more

Oceania » Cook Islands » Rarotonga

Named after Captain COOK, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a British protectorate in 1888. By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand. The e... ... read more

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