bodice;
dance-costume;
barkcloth
- Museum number
- Oc1994,01.12
- Description
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Bodice (part of dance costume) of double-layer natural ecru barkcloth, open in front, with two narrow shoulder straps; outer surface, including straps, decorated with sewn-on hibiscus-fibre rosettes of natural yellowish ecru colour with dyed salmon pink centres; on right side of opening six "buttons", each of three abrus seeds, with corresponding loops (only two extant) on opposite side.
- Production date
- 1954
- Dimensions
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Length: 55 centimetres
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Width: 45 centimetres (as worn)
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Width: 86 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Collection made by donor in field in 1950s.
See Eth.Doc.1054.
Also MS in Departmental Library, N. Sandwith, "Wide-eyed in Tonga: a South Seas odyssey", and paintings, sketches and photographs in Departmental Pictorial Archive.
Donor's label: "'Tau'olunga' or hula costume. Nuku'alofa. Tonga. 1954."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1994
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1994,01.12
