Dance Costume Bracelet
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: CENTRAL BAND OF FIBER ONTO WHICH IS SOWN 2 OVERLAPPING LAYERS OF DYED AND UNDYED FIBER. TOP LAYER IS DYED PINK AND DOES NOT COMPLETELY COVER BOTTOM LAYER. BOTTOM LAYER IS UNDYED. ENDS OF BOTH LAYERS ARE TASSELED. INSIDE OF BRACELET INTERIOR BAND IS COVERED W/ ENDS OF STRING. ONTO BOTH ENDS IS TIED PIECE OF CORD. 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 TRANSLATE FOR DURING 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: E428873-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 9 cm