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Pareu

human history
  • Other Name

    Waist garment (English)

  • Description

    Pareu. Dance skirt. Multiple strands of dyed kiriau (hibiscus fibre) form a thick layer as the body of the garment. The kiriau is dyed green towards the bottom and yellow across the top and knotted onto a central cord runnign the width of the pareu. The waist band area is highly decorated, with dyed green and orange plaited kiriau crisscrossing the width of the pareu, with little rosettes of green and orange kiriau attached.

    Tassels of poepoe seed and kiriau hang from the waist band. Two loose cords at either side of the pareu are the means in which to tie the pareu around someone's waist.

  • Place
    Cook Islands
  • Associated Place

    Cook Islands

  • Accession Number
    1997.18.11
  • Accession Date
    16 Apr 1997
  • Other Id

    55238 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Pareu, 1997.18.11, 55238, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 19 Sep 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply

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