The Taupo or "village maiden" is a functionary as indispensable to a Samoan village as a chief, or even a missionary.
Because the movements of the siva are natural, the body of the Taupo is natural.
The geographer could not have guessed if the word "Taupo," frequently repeated, had not attracted his attention.
Not so the Taupo tribes, who were less controlled by such motives.
It was signed by one of the handmaidens of Seuka, the Taupo of Pago Pago.
Naturally, the little settlement at Taupo was thrown into a state of intense excitement.
A few days later the chiefs were again in council, when new forces were gathered from the Waikato, Taranaki, and Taupo.
The Taupo lives in a house of her own, attended by eight or ten handmaidens and a stern—a very stern—duenna.
The Tongans marched up—about fifty of them—led by their Taupo dressed in a fine mat and dancing as she came.
Before these centre posts the host and hostess sit when receiving their guests, and here the Taupo sits when she makes the kava.