Straw garment
- Museum number:
- 11-42794
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110042794
- Accession number:
- Acc.3562
- Description:
- Skirt, fiber strands wrapped and hung from braided waistband, short fringe at waist. fringe - 78.0 cm.; waistband - 79.0 cm.
- Donor:
- Caroline Mytinger
- Collection place:
- Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- Melanesian
- Collector:
- Caroline Mytinger
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.1 Daily Garb
- Accession date:
- July 22, 1980
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- fringe— length 78 centimeters and waistband— diameter 79 centimeters