dance-costume;
skirt;
bodice;
head-piece
- Museum number
- 2020,2005.1.a-c
- Description
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Three piece dance costume: decorative head-piece (a); bodice (b) and vegetable fibre skirt (c). Head-piece decorated on one side with dark and ligher colour fibres with elastic ties to hold in place when worn. Bodice similarly made with darker andl lighter fibres, and has calico lining; held in place when worn through string ties and velcro strips. Top of skirt reinforced with calico and has velcro fastening.
- Production date
- 2019
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres (a)
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Height: 44 centimetres (b)
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Height: 80 centimetres (c)
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Width: 38 centimetres (a)
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Width: 85 centimetres (b)
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Width: 44 centimetres (c (front))
- Curator's comments
- Designer's mother, Nancy Manutomatoma, helped sew the costume. Worn by Hineva Pakarati Paoa, festival queen, on Rapa Nui, 2019.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from designer during a British Museum visit to Rapa Nui 2019.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- 2020,2005.1.a-c
