Summary Ray visits Savii, one of the rather isolated islands of Western Samoa, where the traditional Polynesian culture is preserved rather well. The staple food is fish, caught using various ingenious ways, but carefully avoiding over-fishing. Other traditional skills include fire-making, cooking and making and sailing lightweight canoes (from a single tree, using ropes instead of nails). They also build open 'fale' houses, which demonstrate their superior resistance in cyclone storms and that traditional know-how remains, which is proudly preserved and transferred from fathers to sons, under supervision of the strong chieftain system in a highly social system of solidarity.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Ray Mears
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Summary Ray visits Savii, one of the rather isolated islands of Western Samoa, where the traditional Polynesian culture is preserved rather well. The staple food is fish, caught using various ingenious ways, but carefully avoiding over-fishing. Other traditional skills include fire-making, cooking and making and sailing lightweight canoes (from a single tree, using ropes instead of nails). They also build open 'fale' houses, which demonstrate their superior resistance in cyclone storms and that traditional know-how remains, which is proudly preserved and transferred from fathers to sons, under supervision of the strong chieftain system in a highly social system of solidarity.
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English
Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
