Torque is a vector component of wind acting on a growing tree. Mechanical devices which were attached to the tree were used to twist a single internode, which simulated the torque component in the absence of bending.Treatments either in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction were initiated at 20° and increased periodically through the entire growing season. Grain angle changed as much as 250% and radial growth was enhanced by as much as 100%, but fiber length decreased 20%.
An entry in Edith Safstrom's diary, We Wia Ragai, marks her first posting to the girl's mission school in the Solomon Islands, and is a Mota phrase told to her by lay missionary colleague, Ida Wench. The phrase essentially means "it is good to be here among you all" and echoed Edith's thoughts on life at the school on tiny Mbungana Island. The Safstrom collection of artifacts held in the Museum of Victoria and Edith's diaries unwrap a synergetic dialogue between lay missionary women and Indigenous women and children. The collection circumscribes a lay missionary's collective experience of Christianity and acceptance of Indigenous cultural heritage from 1921 to 1942 in the Solomon Islands.
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