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Rarahu possessed two muslin frocks, one pink and the other white, which she wore alternately on 26Sundays, over her blue and yellow pareo, to go to the Protestant missionary church at Papeete. On those occasions her hair was divided into two long and very thick black plaits, and over one ear, where an old scrivener sticks his pen, she stuck a large hibiscus flower, whose vivid red contrasted with the paleness of her coppery cheek.