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Object Number 67-24-70/659
Display Title Woman's girdle - liku
Descriptions
Object Description Woman's girdle - liku
Inventory Description Belt, several layers of cut fiber fringe, multiple strand ties, shedding
Classification
  • Belt
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1842
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Dimensions Overall: 94 x 26 x 8.2 cm (37 x 10 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 659 / 67-24-70/659
Credit Line Gift of the Smithsonian Institution, 1867
Provenance
Collector Lt. R. E. Johnston (1838-1842)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1867)

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