Paneta | |
Saibai Island 4875 | |
1881 | |
timber | |
Demolished | |
T Teske, Saibai; Island of the Torres Strait (1988), 38 | |
1897 | |
Replaced by new church | |
Paneta is a Samoan word for Morning Star The church had a thatched roof with huge rafters. These rafters were hand hewn and adzed from the tough, durable timber of the wongai tree. The wongai timber was brought by canoe from the Papua mainland and an old village site at Kagar. |