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Apron

Front section of a dance apron for women. Groups of shell money beads, grey pearl barley seeds and segments of palaquium fruit are sewn in parallel rows on a piece of barkcloth. The pattern is repeated at the bottom edge, but in a considerably more concentrated form. This elaborate and valuable adornment is a sign of the garment's importance as festive clothing. Similar dance loincloths are still made and worn today by women on the Admiralty Islands.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Schurz
Dimensions
Breite: 680.0 mm, Höhe: 920.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bark
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1170

Provenance and sources

when
22.06.1901

where
Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
Manus (location/origin)
who
Speyer, Arthur - Collectors

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