Coconut sennit, a strong and versatile cord known in the SÄmoan language as ‘afa, is braided from the husk fibers of what may be the longest coconut on earth.
“A tree well worth protecting,†said SÄmoan filmmaker Galumalemana Steven Percival. Speaking at a Pacific Film Series event held at the end of August and organized by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i, Galumalemana explained how efforts are being made in Samoato maintain the niu‘afa, the particular variety of elongated coconut, in its true-to-type form.