Assertion: taro | /r/HasProperty | the staff of life
Facets:
value: for the hawaiians
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: according to wilfred lee
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: According to Wilfred Lee ("Ethnobotanical Leaflets," Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1999), "Taro constituted the staff of life for the Hawaiians when Captain Cook arrived in the islands in 1778.