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Object Number
00-8-70/55358
Display Title
Skirt
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Skirt, partially braided hair, strung with glass beads, hanging from fiber stran
Classification
- Skirt
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Tonga
/
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/
Vava'u
Additional Geographic Terms
Vavau Group
Materials
Hair, Glass, Plant fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 75 x 43 x 0.7 cm (29 1/2 x 16 15/16 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
55358
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(1899-1900)
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1899-1900)
Collector
U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition
(1899-1900)
Donor
Alexander Agassiz
(1900)
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