Skirt
2003-32-117
From: New Caledonia (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2003-32-117 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Caledonia (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Short skirt of black, twisted plant fiber, doubled over and caught between two criss-crossing strands at top. Similar twisted black fiber and construction technique in skirts 1995.X.16490 and 1994.X.11433, which has a tag reading "New Caledonia." An object of this sort appears in the center of a Freres Dufy photo reproduced on p. 106 of Decouverte photographique de la Nouvelle-Caledonie 1848-1900 (Serge Kakou, 1998) Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900. |
| Length | 115 cm |
| Width | 19 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1995.X.16489 - Other Number |
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