Title: Niuē-fekai (or Savage) Island and its People

Author: S. Percy Smith

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Gini-fale

67. There was a woman named Gini-fale, often also called Matagini-fale, who was very expert in printing hiapo. She (once) sat by the side of the sea, making the patterns on the hiapo with a shell, some of

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tufuga ke tutū hiapo; ne tauteute e ia e tau hiapo, ti nakai fai vai ke unu aki ha kua to e tau lā, ko e mate foki a ia he fia inu—kua magomago lahi ni e kelekele. Kua lologo a ia mo e liogi atu ke he tau manu-lele mo e tau manu-totolo, nakai ta mai e lautolu ha vai. Kua ole atu ke he tau ika mo e tahi ne tokai e tau vai. Kua galulu tuai e kelekele ke he mafuike, ati vivi ai hana tino, mo e pa hake e vai mo e puāpuā, kua lele atu ke he nofoaga a Folahau, mo e tau hiapo kua tokai he hana a tau hui. Kua lofia he vai; ti oho atu a Folahau mo e inu vave, ha ko e fia inu lahi. Nakai fakaaue atu a ia ki a lautolu, mo e fakamonu atu ke he vai kua puna.

66. Ko e mena ia ne liu ai e vai hala-toka, nakai maeke he lele atu mo e tafe ai ke he tau fāhi he motu ko Niuē. Ko e vai e ne fa nu ai e tau pia he faoa i Paluki mo Liku mo e falu mai i Alofi, ka e fa maha vave ni, ha kua inu gofua e Folahau, nakai liogi mo e fakaaue ki ai. Ka e mua ni e vai he humelie ke hoko mai he aho nai, ko e vai ne liu hifo nakai lele atu.