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A lavalava, sometimes written as lava-lava, also known as an ' ie, short for 'ie lavalava, is an article of daily clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples. It consists of a single rectangular cloth worn similarly to a wraparound skirt or kilt. [1] The term lavalava is both singular and plural in the Samoan language.
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Eureka and Klamath River Railroad was chartered in 1893 to connect the Samoa sawmill and associated worker housing facilities to the city of Arcata and timberlands near the Mad River. [12] The Samoa sawmill was the largest in Humboldt County [11] when purchased by Andrew B. Hammond in 1900. [13] The Samoa post office opened in 1894. [6]
The following page is a list of shopping malls in the U.S. state of California. The largest malls, with a gross leasable area of at least 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2), are in bold font, with a ranking number based on size and date.
California is tackling the problem of textile and fashion waste with the country’s first law that requires clothing companies to implement a recycling system for the garments they sell.
The puletasi (Samoa) or puletaha (Tonga) is a traditional item of clothing worn by Samoan, Tongan, and Fijian women and girls. Today, puletasi is used as a female full dress. It is most commonly worn to church and formal cultural event
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In 1972, the number of American Samoans living in the United States exceeded the Samoan population in American Samoa, and California took the place of Tutuila as the main Samoan-populated region. [14] In 1980 over 22,000 Samoa-born lived in the U.S., mostly of Western Samoa (more than 13,200), while 9,300 were from American Samoa. [13]