Banana or Hibiscus Fiber Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Aug 2001
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mau Piailug
notes: label: Notes
content: Plain weave cloth with warp stripes of red, navy blue, green, yellow, orange, and undyed fiber. Wide band of purple weft near center. Long untied fringes. Donor says this is made of hibiscus fiber, but Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Ethnology of Oceania, says it looks more like banana fiber.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Satawal, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Satawalese
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2018459
label: USNM Number
content: E431503-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 215 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 55 cm