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 FROM A BLACK PARASITIC PLANT CALLED "WALVA." THE TIES ARE REDDISH BROWN PANDANUS. THE WAISTBAND IS TAN PANDANUS AND BLACK, AND THE FRINGE IS QUITE LONG AND IN GOOD CONDITION. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. THE OBJECT WAS EXHIBITED, PROBABLY IN THE 19TH CENTURY, SINCE IT HAS BEEN TIED TOGETHER WITH STRING, SO THAT EXACT MEASUREMENT WAS NOT POSSIBLE. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. ORIGINALLY, TWO SKIRTS WERE INVENTORIED WITH THE NUMBER 3252, BUT JANE WALSH HAS DETERMINED THAT THE SECOND SKIRT SHOULD BE NUMBER 4621. SEE REMARKS UNDER 4621 FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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: E3252-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 49 cm
label: Length - Ties
content: 33 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 22 cm