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 A GOLDEN TURMERIC COLOR WITH DARK BROWN VERTICAL STRIPES. THE FIRST ROW OF FRINGE IS NATURAL TAN COLOR, WITH LONGER FRINGE OF A GOLD COLOR. THE TIES ARE DARK BROWN AND GOLD. HAS A TAG ATTACHED WHICH READS, "FIJI - LIKU - GIRL'S GIRDLE." THIS SKIRT WAS CATALOGUED AS T-11461, BUT HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED THIS CATALOGUE NUMBER SINCE IT WAS MISSING INVENTORY DATA.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Dec 2014
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: E4513-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 12 cm
label: Unknown - Ties
content: 93 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 44 cm