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Veiqia design (complete), 1876 [1]:141. Veiqia (also referred to as weniqia [2]) is a traditional form of tattooing that was exclusive to women in Fiji. [1]:1 Kingsley Roth, a British colonial administrator, described in his 1933 publication that veiqia was marked onto young women's bodies at the time of puberty or sometimes at the onset of menstruation. [3]
In Fiji the sulu is seen as an expression of ethnic Fijian identity. While wearing a sulu is often mandatory for Fijians in certain settings, [9] [10] previously, members of other ethnicities were sometimes discouraged from wearing it. [11] Nowadays, it is pleasant to see all ethnic groups wearing the sulu.
Tim Bayliss-Smith, Brian Robson, David Ley, Derek Gregory (eds), Islands, Islanders and the World: The Colonial and Post-Colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji, pp. 47—51. Details on Matanitu, Yavusa and other aspects of Fijian social structure. Karen J. Brison, Our Wealth Is Loving Each Other: Self and Society in Fiji.
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Fijocrypta is a monotypic genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders containing the single species, Fijocrypta vitilevu.Both genus and species were first described by Robert Raven in 1994, [2] and they have only been found in Fiji. [1]