Author(s): Noel Bartley

Social studies

Did you know that the English word 'tattoo' is supposedly derived from the Samoan word 'tatau'? Find out about the traditional methods still used by Samoans to apply the amazing tattoos worn by many of the islands' people today. In this book you can study the climate, popluation, social structure and political history of the thirteen islands that make up beautiful countries of American Samoa and independent Samoa (formerly Western Samoa).