Skirt

Museum number:

11-39431

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Alternate number:

72 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.2479

Description:

Cotton in tie string only. Grasses attached (not woven) to waistband of overhand knotted network. Made of raffia and/or abaca; cotton.

Donor:

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund

Collection place:

Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawaiian Windward Islands

Verbatim coll. place:

Hawaii; Honolulu; Honolulu

Culture or time period:

Hawaiian

Collector:

Stuart L. Fletcher

Collection date:

1941-1942

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Skirts (garments)

Function:

5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama

Accession date:

1968

Context of use:

Hula skirt.

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

length 81 centimeters, length 7 centimeters, and 92 centimeters

Loans:

S1977-1978 #21: Doe Library (UC Berkeley) (December 7, 1977–March 9, 1978)

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