More than 800,000 families remain in the rural settlements, where land is owned communally.
Property such as machinery, buildings and produce is communally owned.
More than 90% of the land is communally owned.
Often the land was owned communally without formal records of ownership.
The apparatus weighed about 30 pounds, and was communally owned by three or four families.
There have been recent efforts to promote conservation here, especially on communally owned lands.
The forests, also owned communally, were managed to produce charcoal until the 19th century.
The base will have parking for a fleet of communally owned electric cars.
The other half live on private and communally owned lands.
In the traditional Polynesian economy, the majority of land is communally owned.