Woman's Kilt (Cheriut)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 May 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "A kilt worn by women for visits and social occasions (two other types existed, one for work in the garden, the other for wearing at home). One is worn in front, one behind, the two held by a belt (chelius) around the hips, the two kilts being worn low on the hips. The belt is of various types, the most highly priced type formerly consisting of many disks of tortoise shell strung on coir. A second belt of plaited material was worn around the waist, not attached to the kilts. Under the kilt, and used to carry money, was a flat plaited envelope (No. 394,594; 394,595; 394,596). Made by Urrimch [?] of Ngerebehed village. Kilt material is of grass (kerdikes) which grows in swamps and taro patches and of base from Hibiscus tiliaceous (cheremall). The grass is suspended in several layers over a black fiber, the tightly drawn folds at the point of suspension forming a 1/2" thick upper edge; on one side of the kilt the lower ends of the grass elements are dyed red, in the middle of the kilt they are natural, on the other side (apparently front side) the upper ends are natural, the lower ends red, the middle portion has been frayed as if by combing and dyed black. From each end of upper edge hang two bundles of hibiscus fiber, one bundle being dyed yellow, the other red and yellow, to below ends of grass elements. Also from the upper edge along front of skirt, hang smaller bundles of vari-colored hibiscus fiber, 6 or 7" long."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 213418
label: USNM Number
content: E394592-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kilt