Dreflix: Hiko in Tonga: A Culture almost Lost

Hiko in Tonga: A Culture almost Lost

A multi-generational film of a unique, vanishing culture of Polynesian women jugglers in The Kingdom of Tonga.

2019

1h 2min

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