Skirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: A SKIRT OR WIDE BELT MADE OF HIBISCUS FIBERS. THE WAIST BAND IS BRAIDED AND THIN STRIPS OF FIBER HANG FROM THE BAND. THE FIBERS ARE A LIGHT GOLDEN COLOR. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO A SMALL PRINTED LABEL READS, "C. WILKES, FIJI ISL, MARO, OR MAN'S GIRDLE."
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3594, - ORIG. NO. 923."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 922 - 925 as "Cinctures from Tongatabu, [Tonga] made in imitation of the Fiji "liku" or girdle worn by the women."
label: Notes
content: Per Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Dr. Stéphanie Leclerc-Caffarel, and Dr. Karen Jacobs, this liku is made of kuta fibers (Eleocharis swamp sedge), and the tassels found with the skirt do not seem to belong with that artifact. They also identify it as Fijian, rather than Tongan, based on the materials and technique of manufacture.
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: E3594-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 79 cm
label: Length - Ties
content: 18 cm
label: Width - Ties
content: 19 cm