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Object Number
00-8-70/55436
Display Title
Skirt
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Large vegetable fiber or grass skirt, woven waistband and cord
Classification
- Skirt
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Tuvalu
/
<State>
/
Funafuti Island
Materials
Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 130 x 83 x 11 cm (51 3/16 x 32 11/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
00-8-70/55436
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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