Lava-lava
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Oct 2014
label: Collection Date
content: between 1 Jan 1971 and 31 Dec 1973
name: label: Collector
content: Connie Mays
label: Donor Name
content: Connie Mays
notes: label: Notes
content: From donor: "Cotton lava-lava: woven by Ulithian women on a large, handmade wooden loom. The woman sits with the belt around her back for support while she is weaving each lava-lava. This is the traditional clothing for an outer island woman. When a young girl has her first menstual cycle she begins wearing a lava-lava instead of just a plain piece of cloth. [This] was given to me [Connie Mays] as [a] gift out of respect for my being an English-as-a-second-language teacher at Outer Islands High School." Photographs from donor in NAA show lava-lava in use.
label: Notes
content: Handwoven, plain weave cotton fabric with wide black and yellow warp stripes, and very narrow green pinstripes in the black areas. Red weft. Long, slightly twisted fringe at the ends.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Mar 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Falalop, Ulithi Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yapese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2069653
label: USNM Number
content: E433590-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Lava-lava
content: ca. 140 cm
label: Length - Tassles
content: avg 28 cm
label: Width - Lava-lava
content: 53 cm