Bulou is a title used by Fijian women of chiefly rank in Nadroga-Navosa, Kadavu, and parts of Serua.
She graduated in dentistry from the Fiji School of Medicine in 1967, the first Fijian woman to do so.
Adi is a title used by Fijian women of chiefly rank, namely female members of chiefly clans.
No Fijian women would agree to go topless so a South African actress, Sandi Schultz, was imported to play the role of the chief's daughter.
Intermarriage remains very rare, and while Indian men sometimes date Fijian women, the opposite almost never happens, at least in public.
Maternal grandfather is believed to be married a native Fijian women or an Anglo-Fijian mixed women.
An elderly Fijian woman stepped into the room; the hotel staff wore no uniforms, but I thought I'd seen her before, working in the building.
"Oh, we went crazy when we heard that," the youngest of the Fijian women, a petite twenty-two-year-old former resort hostess named Melanie Gonebale, told me later.
He eventually married a Fijian woman, Matila Balekana and resided in the Solomon Islands for most of his adult life.
Samoan oral tradition generally recognizes that two Fijian women, Taema and Tilafaiga, introduced the practice of tattooing.