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Grass skirt
Object Number 987-6-70/5597
Display Title Grass skirt
Descriptions
Object Description Skirt, grass. Grass knotted around a fiber cord.
Inventory Description Grass skirt with braided fiber waist band
Classification
  • Skirt
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Melanesian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Additional Geographic Terms Nagzab Valley
Materials Grass, Vegetable fiber, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 60 x 24 x 8 cm (23 5/8 x 9 7/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 987-6-70/5597
Provenance
Collector Stanley Eilenberg (1944 - Feb 1987)
Donor Stanley Eilenberg (1944 - Feb 1987)

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