Woman's Skirt, "Liku"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Robert E. Johnson
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 WOVEN IN COMPLICATED PATTERNS OF LIGHT BROWN, DARK AND REDDISH BROWN WITH NATURAL COLOR DESIGNS, SOME FIBERS ARE TWISTED AND BRAIDED INTO PATTERNS. THE FRINGE IS NATURAL AND BROWN AND CUT INTO VARYING LENGTHS TO SHOW ALTERNATING COLORS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; ALSO A TAG READS, "U.S. EX. EX. COLLECTED BY LIEUT R.E. JOHNSON, BUNDLE NO. 2"; A BROKEN PRINTED TAG ALSO READS, "LAKEBA". PUBLICATIONS: PROCEEDINGS VOL. 79, ART. 30, KRIEGER, PL. 29. THIS SKIRT WAS EXHIBITED IN THE 19TH CENTURY, IT CAN BE CLEARLY SEEN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THAT EXHIBIT IN VOL. 79 OF THE PROCEEDINGS. PRIOR TO THE MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS EXHIBIT, THE SKIRT ITSELF WAS WIRED IS TOGETHER, FOLDED IN HALF, JUST THE WAY IT WAS EXHIBITED IN THE 19TH CENTURY. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lakemba Islands, Lau Islands, 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: E4628-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm
label: Unknown - Ties
content: 51 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 93 cm