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Making Siapo: 5. Dyeing SiapoCherie Barforddye is made from candlenut trees the shoots of coconut palms gathered dried and powdered mountain clay and the cut trunks of towering bananas reds my hair's the colour of siapo blotted by immersion dyeing my great-grandmother she was a taupou sometimes when I'm combing I think of Fiapaipai and smile or weep Taupou = village virgin
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