"The book has a broad sweep, covering all facets of the Samoan arts, including canoe and house building, siapo (tapa), weaving, tattooing, oratory, adornment, all forms of performance art, the visual arts, and literature. An important feature of the book is profiles of living practitioners, both from Samoa and the large Samoan communities in other Pacific countries."--BOOK JACKET. Source: OpenLibrary