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, WHICH HAVE APPARENTLY BEEN COLORED WITH TURMERIC. THE WAIST BAND HAS BEEN BRAIDED AND FROM THE BRAID FIBERS HANG FREELY, THE COLOR IS A BURNT ORANGE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG; HAS PRINTED LABEL WHICH READS, "TONGA ISLANDS, MARO OR MEN'S GIRDLE, ORIGINAL NUMBER 922".
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 vau (inner bark of hibiscus) and covered with rerega (turmeric). They also identify the skirt as Fijian, rather than Tongan, based on the materials and technique of manufacture. Skirts such as 3595 and 3597, covered in turmeric, are skirts for pregnant women in Fiji.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E3597-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 84 cm
label: Length - Ties
content: 18 cm
label: Width - Ties
content: 21 cm