“Worshipers [in a Tahiti church] sit in same-sex groups, blending their voices in rousing himenes—Tahitian-style hymns. So transporting is the sound, vows one hearer, 'it lifts you right out of your seat.'"
(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Charting a New Course: French Polynesia," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
