[buwaya]

That costume is not Polynesian.
The real thing was the grass skirt and ... nothing else.

The rest came from the western traders and missionaries (trying to teach the natives modesty), and Disney.

[Simon Green]

That costume is not Polynesian. The real thing was the grass skirt and ... nothing else.

Hence the superiority of the 1984 version of "Mutiny On The Bounty".

:-)