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- An opportunity to buy an oyster with a pearl inside is one of the attractions at the Polynesian Village. The village is built around two South Sea island "long houses" - one a restaurant, the other a setting for Polynesian dances. South Sea palm trees are planted about and there is a lagoon where beautiful Polynesian girls pilot outrigger canoes and natives dive for oysters. The oysters were transplanted to Flushing Meadow from Pacific pearl beds.
- * Admission: adults, $1.00; children, 50 cents.
- DANCING ISLANDERS. Every hour on the hour from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., performances are given by dancers from American Samoa. Dancers range from a strapping chief to school children, and include lava-lava-clad dancing girls. Three-foot knives are brandished in one of the dances; in another the knives are covered with an inflammable substance and set ablaze.
- SOUTH SEA DISHES. The restaurant specializes in South Sea cuisine featuring fish, chicken and pork.
- HANDICRAFTS. Pearl jewelry and other items are on sale in four thatched-hut shops. Prices range from $1.50 (for a pearl-bearing oyster) to $3,000 for gem pearls.
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- POLYNESIA
Life in a South Seas village is recreated by fire dancers and pearl divers amid thatch-roofed huts and a palm-shaded lagoon.
Beautiful Polynesian girls pilot outrigger canoes and dive for real pearl oysters, which were transplanted to Flushing Meadow from Pacific pearl-growing beds.
- ISLAND DANCES. Dancers from American Samoa -- strapping chiefs, lava-lava-clad girls and boys -- perform every hour in one of the two Polynesian long houses. One dance features flaming three-foot knives.
- RESTAURANT. Polynesian drinks and fish, chicken and pork dishes are served in a second long house.
- HANDICRAFTS. Pearls of all sizes, jewelry and other Polynesian ware can be purchased in a row of four thatch-roofed shops.
¶ Admission: adults, $1.00; children, 50 cents.
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