Woman's Skirt, "Liku"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: United States Exploring Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: SKIRT IS WOVEN FROM A BLACK PARASITIC PLANT CALLED "WALVA." THE WAISTBAND IS BLACK AND TAN PANDANUS CHECKERBOARD DESIGN. THE FRINGE IS QUITE LONG AND IN GOOD CONDITION. THIS SKIRT HAD BEEN CATALOGUED AS 3253, BUT THIS NUMBER WAS ASSOCIATED WITH ANOTHER SKIRT WHICH ALSO HAD THE CORRECT PEALE NUMBER. S.I. NUMBER 9219 HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED TO THIS SKIRT SINCE IT WAS MISSING INVENTORY DATA.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 1394 - 1405 as "Fishing dress made of fibrous roots worn around the waist by the women of the Fiji Islands."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E9219-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt