Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-22 | Page 9 | Death Feast Samoan Rite

H FEAST RITE to o Be e Relegated Chief ie Says a s so o o. o PAGO Samoa Jan 22 The e Death Feast an which has been handed down cli lt h succeeding generation of e Samoans from the earliest wm will not be abandoned at atit Rt it the assembly of titled Ins has decided In this deis deis de- de is Excellency Henr Henry F T captain of ot the U U. S S. navy resent governor go of ot American has acquiesced Its Inroads Inroads western his a. a as abolished many of ot the esqUe esque social or tribal customs Islands but the primitive d ot of showing respect for the thew w n 11 not be until the E people themselves are for the change solution to do away vay with the theony they ony y wa was defeated In the can ican can Samoa annual fono Cono The Theil il Ian n assembly of ot titled chiefs feet neet t each year jear ear to confer with of ot the administration resided over by the na a naval nor or or in person Ie p Samoans believe that the theto tr tr way to honor the dead is to themselves with food then ch chant nt or sing their hymns of until they ther fall asleep from us liS on The food Is furnished he family or clan of the de- de d. d All AU people are at liberty to toke toke ke of the feast FOOd usual- usual of or pigs roasted whole breadfruit baked bananas bread bread and perhaps k keg g beef ht from the traders' traders store e C main aln objection lies in the that a a. family which has-been has to lose one of its mem- mem m may y be unduly impoverished holding the custom This is Ss l so In the case of ot high I whose whose family connections ne several villages The cost coste e great greaf amount of ot food some some- j so impoverishes the entire that It does not recover recover i comfort for months vernor vernor Bryan in closing the SJ sign slon n of ot the resolution of ot abo- abo tf said e majority of ot the Samoan peo- peo ePe against the resolution it cannot be made la law w. w a Samoan custom and It Ise is e Samoans to change their Ims In accordance with their theirs des s res Bryan summarized the they y ot of the administration for fortas las tas Lesser taxation th lh school system a pro res- res road building program better facilIties for tor the Samoan e and encouragement for aI ar a r I- output o of copra copra P chiefs expressed confidence ne he naval administration and the loyal support of at the theIn people to any measure tak- tak the governor for the better- better In of Samoa I