Dance Costume Skirt
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: 2 ROWS OF UNDYED PLAITED ROSETTES OF CELLULOSE FIBER ARE TIED TO INTERIOR PLAITED BAND OF PANDANUS. EACH ROSETTE HAS 2 BROWN UNIVALVE SHELLS TIED TO IT. TIED TO PANDANUS BAND AND HANGING DOWN FROM IT ARE 2 LAYERS OF UNWOVEN FIBER. TOP LAYER IS SHORTER THAN THE SECOND AND IS DYED PINK. SECOND LAYER IS UNDYED. EITHER END OF PANDANUS BAND ARE FIBER CORDS TO TIE SKIRT CLOSED. ONE OF 6 PIECES OF A COSTUME SET (428871- 428876). 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 THE LA FESTIVAL. WE HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOS OF THE COSTUMES BEING WORN DURING 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: E428871-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 78 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 59 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 13 cm