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dance skirt

Dance skirt consisting of a folded tube of tapa with decorations on the front and a hanging on the edge. The front is decorated with five transverse rows of short cords with coix fruit, conus disc, palaquium shell and scraps of red fabric. The lower edge is sewn together and decorated with a dense hanging made of the same materials.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
worn costume accessories
Dimensions
General: 86 × 52 cm
Material/Technique
Tapa; Coix fruit; Conus disc; Palaquium shell; Fabric beaten; sewn
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D10001
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D10001

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1900
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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