Dance Costume Top
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Aug 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Adrienne L. Kaeppler
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: TOP OF DANCE COSTUME CONSISTS OF 2 ROWS OF PLAITED ROSETTES OF PINK FIBER ONTO WHICH 2 COWRIE SHELLS ARE TIED. ROSETTES ARE ATTACHED TO A CENTRAL BAND. HANGING DOWN FROM THIS BAND ARE MANY LENGTHS OF PLAITED DYED GREEN PIECES OF FIBER W/2 COWRIE SHELLS TIED TO THEIR ENDS. ONE OF 6 PIECES OF A COSTUME SET (428865 - 428870). ACCORDING TO DR. ADRIENNE KAEPPLER (CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY) THIS COSTUME WAS "WORN AT THE LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL OF ARTS, 1989. GIVEN TO THE SMITHSONIAN BY THE UVEAN DANCERS THAT I HELPED TO TAKE CARE OF AND TRANSLATE FOR DURING THE L.A. FESTIVAL.WE HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOS OF THE COSTUMES BEING WORN DUING PERFORMANCES AT THE FESTIVAL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Uvea Island, Wallis Islands, Wallis and Futuna, France, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416133
label: USNM Number
content: E428866-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 52 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm