Woman's Skirt, "Liku"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Collector
content: Smith
label: Collector
content: D. Smith
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 HAS SHORT CLIPPED FRINGE WOVEN INTO IT WITH TWISTED TURMERIC YELLOW COLORED FIBERS. THE FRINGE IS REDDISH-BROWN, YELLOW AND BLACK. THE LONGER FRINGE IS NATURAL AND REDDISH-BROWN WITH BLACK PANDANUS STRANDS. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE; ALSO A PAPER SHIPPING LABEL SEWN ON READS, "U.S. EX EX COLLECTED BY ... SMITH" THIS OBJECT HAD A T- NUMBER, 11463, IDENTIFIED AS A WILKES PIECE BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF THE PEALE NUMBER AND THE PAPER LABEL. HOWEVER, SINCE THE PEALE NUMBER IS NOT LISTED IN THE LEDGER, THIS SKIRT HAS BEEN ARBITRARILY ASSIGNED THE S.I. CATALOGUE NUMBER 1512 SINCE THE NUMBER IS MISSING INVENTORY DATA.
label: Notes
content: There were a number of men named Smith associated with the U.S. Exploring Expedition. There are several objects in the collection identified as collected from Fiji by "D. Smith", and D. Smith therefore might also be the collector of E1512. D. Smith may be David M. Smith, who was an armorer on the expedition.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Aug 2015
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: E1512-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Skirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Length - Ties
content: 65 cm
label: Circumference - Object
content: 101 cm