skirt
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.937
- Description
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Long, shredded sago fibre skirt decorated with brown horizontal stripes. Formed of two parts joined at waist band by sago fibre cord plaited with yellow orchid fibre. Waist band of knotted fibre hanks woven alternately with unstained and dark brown fibres to create chevron pattern along front.
- Production date
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19thC (before 1904)
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19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.50 centimetres (band)
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Length: 84 centimetres
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Thickness: 1 centimetres (band)
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Width: 50 centimetres (laid flat)
- Curator's comments
- Expedition label handwritten in pencil reads: 'Bugi'. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.937