I-sala

Watercolour portrait of Seru Epenisa Cakobau wearing an i-sala, by Edward Fanshawe, 1849

The i-sala is a traditional Fijian headdress, similar in shape to a headscarf or turban, and part of the traditional attire of the chiefly and priestly classes of the islands of Fiji as a sign of rank.[1] Other variant of the name include sala, i-zinu, i-uso or i-uho, vauvau or paupau and masi turban.[2] I-sala or ai Sala literally means "wrapper or envelope" in the Fijian language.[3]

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  3. ^ One Amongst Them (1903). Fijian and English Practical Dictionary, with Hand-book and Grammar. Suva: A.M. Brodziak. p. 113.