Editing Tuvalu (section)

===Architecture===
The traditional buildings of Tuvalu used plants and trees from the native broadleaf forest,<ref name="CHF1">[[#Hedley|Hedley]], pp. 40–41</ref> including timber from ''pouka'' (''[[Hernandia]] peltata''); ''ngia'' or ''ingia'' bush (''[[Pemphis]] acidula''); ''miro'' (''[[Thespesia populnea]]''); ''Tonga'' (''[[Rhizophora mucronata]]''); ''fau'' or ''fo fafini'', or woman's fibre tree (''[[Hibiscus tiliaceus]]'').<ref name="CHF1"/> Fibre is from [[coconut]]; ''ferra'', native fig (''[[Ficus]] aspem''); ''fala'', screw pine or ''[[Pandanus]]''.<ref name="CHF1"/> The buildings were constructed without nails, lashed together with plaited [[sennit]] rope handmade from dried coconut fibre.<ref name="MG">{{cite book |last1=Goldsmith |first1=Michael. |title=Transformations of the Meeting-House in Tuvalu |year=1985 |publisher=Antony Hooper and Judith Huntsman, eds., ‘Transformations of Polynesian Culture’ Polynesian Society}}</ref>

Following contact with Europeans, iron products were used including nails and corrugated roofing material. Modern buildings in Tuvalu are constructed from imported building materials, including imported timber and concrete.<ref name="MG"/>

[[File:Interior of a maneapa in Funafuti, Tuvalu.jpg|thumb|Interior of a maneapa on Funafuti, Tuvalu]]
Church and community buildings ([[Maneaba|''maneapa'']]) are usually coated with white paint that is known as ''lase'', which is made by burning a large amount of dead coral with firewood. The whitish powder that is the result is mixed with water and painted on the buildings.<ref name="TP">{{cite web |last=Panapa |first=Tufoua |title=Ethnographic Research on Meanings and Practices of Health in Tuvalu: A Community Report |publisher=Report to the Tuvaluan Ministries of Health and Education: Ph D Candidate Centre for Development Studies – "Transnational Pacific Health through the Lens of Tuberculosis" Research Group. Department of Anthropology, The University of Auckland, N.Z. |pages=39–41 |year=2012 |url=http://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/Departments/anthropology/documents-publications/Tufoua%20Ethnographic%20Research%20on%20Meanings%20and%20Practices%20of%20Health%20in%20Tuvalu%20final.pdf |access-date=6 January 2018 |archive-date=4 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204014558/https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/arts/Departments/anthropology/documents-publications/Tufoua%20Ethnographic%20Research%20on%20Meanings%20and%20Practices%20of%20Health%20in%20Tuvalu%20final.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>