Te bau
human history
Te bau. Head garland. Te bau are worn as a decorative head piece as part of costume adornments for Kiribati female dancers. This te bau consists of a double row of tumara (cowrie shells) of an off-white colour perforated and sewn to a long strip of black cloth with te benu (coconut fibre) and commerical thread. Approximately four to five tumara are missing from te bau. At each end of the bau there are two loops for fastening together. This bau was collected from Nonouti Island, Kiribati.
Accession number: 1940.3 Last Update: 8 Sept 2021
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Head ornament
Head Garland
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- Nonouti/Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
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1940.3
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1940
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25217.1 (ethnology)
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