Fijians affinity for ivory began in the homeland where elephant tusks were highly valued. When one looks at the Tabua, one sees the imprints of a romance that began when an Egyptian princess, in her yearning for this tall, dark African neighbour, that she smuggled the most precious gem that lay within the temple to secure her love for this man. The animal, its teeth, used back then was different from the whale, we use today, yet is a fierce predator in the river Nile. This is how the Tabua had its beginning. origins.
Fijians affinity for ivory began in the homeland where elephant tusks were highly valued. When one looks at the Tabua, one sees the imprints of a romance that began when an Egyptian princess, in her yearning for this tall, dark African neighbour, that she smuggled the most precious gem that lay within the temple to secure her love for this man.
The animal, its teeth, used back then was different from the whale, we use today, yet is a fierce predator in the river Nile.
This is how the Tabua had its beginning. origins.
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