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Updated: May 15, 2025
They were very good-looking, and charged their children that when they died they were to be buried in a standing posture, with their faces uncovered, that people might still come and look at them; and from this probably originated the custom of embalming practised there. Lefao was the name a chief who came from Tutuila and lived in one of the districts bordering on Aleipata.
When the meeting was held for the division of the lands of Atua he did not attend, but the chiefs voted him the place and neighbourhood where he lived at Lepa, or the wall, which, of old, ran across the island and ended there, and hence the place was named Salefao sacred to, or, the province of Lefao. This settlement, on the north side, was the principal residence of the kings of Atua.
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