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Object Number 2019.10.6
Display Title Kiekie of purple and orange dyed and natural plant fiber in a diamond pattern
Descriptions
Inventory Description Kiekie, ornamental girdle worn around waist, strings of plant fiber cords, purple, orange and natural diamond pattern, attached to waistband, braided fiber ties
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date 1953 or earlier
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga
Dimensions Overall: 44 × 66 × 2.4 cm (17 5/16 × 26 × 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2019.10.6
Credit Line Gift of Rebecca Shore, Hannah Powell, Kaethe Shore and John Joseph Shore in honor of Dr. S. Langi Kavaliku (Harvard BA, 1961), Fuiva Kavaliku, and the people of Tonga.

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