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. BAND IS TIGHTLY WOVEN IN PATTERNS OF REDDISH BROWN, BLACK AND NATURAL TAN COLORS. THE FRINGE IS NATURAL AND REDDISH BROWN, QUITE LONG AND CUT AT DIFFERENT LENGTHS TO SHOW ALTERNATING COLORS. EXAMINED BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. ACCORDING TO THE OLD CATALOGUE CARD EMORY BELIEVED THIS WAS A MALE SKIRT. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "4,589. *K. P. EMORY SAYS THIS IS A MALE GARMENT."
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: E4589-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Unknown - Ties
content: 59 cm
label: Unknown - Ties
content: 24 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 75 cm