The whole village built of pandanus and grass looked as if it were about to founder in the sea of mud. |
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An abundance of jewellery made of fine seeds and shells, pandanus weavings, painted turtle shells and combfish bones also fill the gallery. |
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We sat on pandanus mats on the lino floor and talked about Britain and Samoa. |
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Until the 1970s, houses throughout the group were open rectangular structures supported by pandanus posts and roofed with pandanus thatch. |
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Photographers made use of the pandanus to lend striking silhouettes to black and white photographs of Reef twilight. |
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Local staples include breadfruit, arrowroot, pandanus, and taro, and are now supplemented with imported rice, flour, and sugar. |
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In addition to twigs, the crows manufacture tools from long and barbed leaves of the pandanus tree. |
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A few houses of local materials, with pandanus thatch sides and thatched roofs, still exist. |
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Learn how to weave a pandanus bracelet, play the didgeridoo or throw a hunting spear. |
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On some of the drier atolls in the Marshalls and the Gilberts, the pandanus tree is a major subsistence crop. |
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Islands are coral reefs of low height, covered largely with coconut palms, of pandanus and with breadfruit trees. |
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At the bottom of the canyon, a constant humidity maintains lush vegetation, palm trees, pandanus and ferns are grouped along the rivers. |
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Some varieties of pandanus are cultivated for their leaves, used principally in making plaited mats and thatch for roofs. |
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Women manufacture tapa cloth from bark and weave mats and baskets from several varieties of pandanus leaves. |
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We set off in a crocodile through the pandanus palms and bankshia trees. |
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Shorter lily stems make the focal point with pandanus leaves that get tangled. |
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The colors were made naturally from plants such as pandanus and turmeric. |
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This rampart is now colonized by coconut palms, pandanus, and breadfruit trees, and I like to sit here in the late after-noons and watch the sea rolling ashore. |
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On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high. |
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Nor are the ficus trees, the Bermuda cedars, the pandanus, the Cape yews, and the remarkably vigorous ginger which cover the top of the mountain's northern slopes. |
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A woman weaves pandanus leaves into mats and boxes. |
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Covered with coconut and pandanus groves, it exports copra. |
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Although the plant walls are tending to disappear nowadays, the pandanus roofs and the use of wooden frameworks continue, both in individual houses and in hotels, anxious to exploit this architectural style. |
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In Village on the Island of Bali, white geese advance in single file, a rooster unfolds his tail feathers like a rainbow, the large pandanus roof rests like a hat with a volcano emerging to the right. |
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The wa proa of the Caroline Islands traditionally used pandanus matting as sailcloth. |
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It hopped onto the pandanus plant, grabbed the spiked edge of one of the long straplike leaves and began a series of ripping motions. |
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Other photos of dingoes feeding attest to the variety in their diet, from small mammals, fish, and carrion, to fruit such as mango, coconut and pandanus. |
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Of much less importance are plants such as Pandanus, Dracaena and Cordyline. |
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