Jean P Hayden Museum

American Samoa


Has a small but interesting display of Samoan artefacts, including va’a (bonito canoes), alia (war canoes), coconut-shell combs, pigs’ tusk armlets and native pharmacopoeia, plus information on traditional tattooing and native medicinal plants and Samoan medicine.


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