"[3] On the island of Savaiʻi in Samoa, a spirit deity called Tui Fiti resides in Fagamalo, a village said to have once been settled by Fijians.
[4] The special abode of Tui Fiti was a mound within a grove of large and durable trees called ifilele (Intsia bijuga).
Fagamalo is one of the pito nuʻu sub-villages of the greater Matautu village on Savaiʻi island's central north coast.
The missionary George Turner wrote in Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884) that Tuifiti was the name of a village god in Savaiʻi who appeared as a man who walked about but was never visible to the people of the place.
Cakobau was bestowed the chiefly title of Peseta[6] by the matai of Matautu in recognition of Samoa's ancient connection with Fiji.