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'au · Samoan

A comb of bone or turtle shell, and the mallet that strikes it

tappedworked
3hands
Made ofbone, turtle shell, wood
Pointsa row of teeth, from a few to several dozen, in a set of combs of different widths
Heldthe tufuga holds the comb and the sausau; two assistants stretch the skin

What it is

A set of combs — wide ones for filling, narrow ones for line — each hafted at a right angle and struck with a light mallet.

The long version

The set is the point. A tufuga carries combs of several widths, the way a printer carries type sizes, and the pe'a's solid bands come from the wide ones. The mallet is called the sausau. Two assistants, the 'au toso, stretch the skin and wipe.

The tools were made of bone, turtle shell and wood; the titles that go with them are hereditary in two families.

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Where each claim comes from
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defaultcitedPeʻa — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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