Inhabitants of Lafter Island Describe Dress Diet and Skills
Accounts describe pee ladies painting faces with reddish brown ochre and turmeric, wearing orange extracts, and white streaks. They live mainly on vegetables, cultivate fields, burn grass for manure, plant banana trees, and cook food in red-hot earth. Canoes are narrow planks, land travel by sea skillful, and three days’ work sustains a person yearly.