Back print: full design — a solitary Samoan outrigger canoe (va'a) foundering through a storm swell, illustrating the proverb 'Tilitili va'a goto.'

Quick Like a Sinking Boat — Samoan Proverb Tee

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Back print: full design — a solitary Samoan outrigger canoe (va'a) foundering through a storm swell, illustrating the proverb 'Tilitili va'a goto.'
  • Back print: full design — a solitary Samoan outrigger canoe (va'a) foundering through a storm swell, illustrating the proverb 'Tilitili va'a goto.'
  • Back print: full design — a solitary Samoan outrigger canoe (va'a) foundering through a storm swell, illustrating the proverb 'Tilitili va'a goto.'
Quick Like a Sinking Boat — Samoan Proverb Tee

Quick Like a Sinking Boat — Samoan Proverb Tee

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"Tilitili va'a goto."
"Quick like a sinking boat."

This alagaupu (Samoan proverb) comes from the image of a va'a (traditional outrigger canoe) in danger of foundering as it races desperately for shore through a heavy swell. It is used as an upu faifai — words of rebuke — aimed at a person who deserts their companions to save their own skin, abandoning a crew, family, or community to a fate they refuse to share themselves.

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