- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Lengths of frayed plant fibre, gathered into bunches and folded over at the top and stitched together. Three bunches grouped together and bound with string. These bunches when pushed over a barkcloth or vine belt form a skirt. [MOBB [OPS move] 30/1/2017]
- Geographical reference
- New Britain Bismarck Archipelago South-west Coast Kandrian (Moewehafen)
- Cultural groups
- Arawe
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 08/1937
- Date collected
- 16 June 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Grass Fibre Plant, Material String, Process Stitched, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 475 mm, Depth: max 50 mm, Width: max 70 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.1205 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 1137
1938.36.1205
Lengths of frayed plant fibre, gathered into bunches and folded over at the top and stitched together. Three bunches grouped together and bound with string. These bunches when pushed over a barkcloth or vine belt form a skirt. [MOBB [OPS move] 30/1/2017]
1938.36.1205
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