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Fiafia
 
Dancers and singers at the 2006 Flag Day ceremony.
NPS photo by Tavita Togia.
Samoan dancing and singing at the 2006 Flag Day celebration.
 

Fiafia nights are presentations of Samoan dancing and singing and are staged at many hotels for tourists, and are sometimes accompanied by a umu feast. Among the best of the hotel presentations are those at Aggie Grey's Hotel and Coconuts Beach Club Resort in Western Samoa.

A Samoan Matai storyteller.
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Samoan fruit bats hanging at rest  

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Throughout the Pacific the main reason for the rarity of the two fruit bat species, or flying foxes, is that it is widely sought as a food and considered a delicacy. Sale or trade in fruit bats is now illegal in the U.S. and its territories.

Last Updated: January 09, 2007 at 14:45 EST