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 OF STRIPS OF PANDANUS, SWAMP SEDGE, GRASSES AND HIBISCUS BAST. THE BAND IS A GOLD COLOR WITH NATURAL TAN AND MEDIUM BROWN WOVEN DESIGNS, SOME FIBERS ARE TWISTED AND BRAIDED INTO PATTERNS. THE FRINGE IS CUT INTO ROWS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS TO SHOW ALTERNATING COLOR OF NATURAL TAN, MEDIUM BROWN, TAN, AND GOLD. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: PROCEEDINGS VOL. 79, ART. 30, KRIEGER, PL. 29. THIS SKIRT WAS EXHIBITED IN THE 19TH CENTURY, IT CAN BE CLEARLY SEEN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THAT EXHIBIT IN VOL. 79 OF THE PROCEEDINGS. THE SKIRT ITSELF WAS WIRED TOGETHER, FOLDED IN HALF, JUST THE WAY IT WAS EXHIBITED.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E3308-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Length - Ties
content: 73 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 90 cm