Dark brown grass skirt with coconut fibre cord at the waist for fastening.

Collection type: Object
Description: Dark brown grass skirt with coconut fibre cord at the waist for fastening.
Long description: Dark brown grass skirt with coconut fibre cord at the waist for fastening. Part of a complete woman's dance costume. This object has been stored rolled.
Geographical reference: Kiribati
Oceania > Micronesia > Kiribati
Person: Field collector Rachel Robinson; PRM source Rachel Robinson
Date / Period: Date made: Before 03/2001
Date collected: February 1999 to March 2001
Acquisition information: Donated: 2004
Materials and processes: Material Coconut Leaf Plant, Material Coconut Fibre Yarn Plant, Material String, Material Pigment, Process Split, Process Tied
Dimensions: Depth: max 126 mm, Width: max 222 mm, Length: max 521 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2004.56.20.1
Research and responses: In The Material Culture of Kiribati (Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific 1986) p. 140 Gerd Koch refers to this type of skirt as a karoro. He described its production in detail - photocopy in RDF. [JP 19/6/2004]

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