Alatupe Alatupe is spearfishing in a lagoon in Poutasi, Western Samoa, while a neighbor looks on. The Lagavale family lives in a 720-square-foot tin-roofed open-air house with a detached cookhouse in Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. The Lagavales have pigs, chickens, a few calves, fruit trees and a vegetable garden. Material World Project.