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Object Number 48-51-70/2933
Display Title Small girl's skirt made of banana leaf and hybiscus bark with pandanus
Descriptions
Object Description Small girl's skirt made of banana leaf and hybiscus bark with pandanus+
Inventory Description Skirt, multicolroed plant fiber extensions attached to plant leaf band
Classification
  • Skirt
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Federated States of Micronesia / <State> / Yap Islands
Additional Geographic Terms Caroline Islands
Dimensions Overall: 50 x 43 x 6.8 cm (19 11/16 x 16 15/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48-51-70/2933
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum Yap Expedition
Collector David M. Schneider (1947)
Collector W. D. Stevens (1947)
Collector N. Kidder (1947)

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