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Object Number
00-8-70/55435
Display Title
Skirt
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Shirt, grass underneath multicolor ribbons of sewn plant leaves
Classification
- Shirt
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Tuvalu
/
<State>
/
Funafuti Island
Materials
Plant leaf, Plant fiber, Dye
Dimensions
Overall: 76 x 117 x 10 cm (29 15/16 x 46 1/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1899-1900)
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(1899-1900)
Collector
U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition
(1899-1900)
Donor
Donated by
Alexander Agassiz
(1900)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
| 48-51-70/2933 | Small girl's skirt made of banana leaf and hybiscus bark with pandanus |
Skirt
|
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| |
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Skirt
|
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| |
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
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Mat
|
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| |
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|
Kiribati
| |
| 19-43-70/D1288 | Bark coat |
Shirt
|
Borneo
Borneo | |
| 54-58-70/3672 | Man's "grass skirt," made from blanched fibers of unopened coconut + |
Skirt
|
Caroline Islands
Ponape Island |