Back print: full design of a solitary Samoan youth with long black hair and ie lava, mid-throw of a slender ti'a dart in the tagati'a game, with the proverb 'Ua tulia afega' — The Interrupted Throw

The Interrupted Throw — Samoan Proverb Tatau Tee

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Back print: full design of a solitary Samoan youth with long black hair and ie lava, mid-throw of a slender ti'a dart in the tagati'a game, with the proverb 'Ua tulia afega' — The Interrupted Throw
  • Back print: full design of a solitary Samoan youth with long black hair and ie lava, mid-throw of a slender ti'a dart in the tagati'a game, with the proverb 'Ua tulia afega' — The Interrupted Throw
  • Back print: full design of a solitary Samoan youth with long black hair and ie lava, mid-throw of a slender ti'a dart in the tagati'a game, with the proverb 'Ua tulia afega' — The Interrupted Throw
The Interrupted Throw — Samoan Proverb Tatau Tee

The Interrupted Throw — Samoan Proverb Tatau Tee

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Ua tulia afega.
"The throwing-ground is overrun."

This alagaupu (Samoan proverb) comes from tagati'a, a traditional game in which a player hurls a long, slender wooden dart, the ti'a, down a course after first striking it against a small mound of packed clay (paga) to build momentum. The afega is the run-up spot from which the thrower takes his approach. Ua tulia afega describes onlookers crowding that spot, hindering the player from making his throw. Figuratively, it describes an undertaking — especially a discussion — interrupted by the arrival of a stranger: used respectfully (upu fa'aaloalo) when good manners call for attending to a visitor before returning to one's own affairs, or as a caution (upu taofiofi) when one prefers the stranger not learn what is underway.

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