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Liku

human history
  • Other Name

    Waist garment (English)

  • Description

    Liku. Skirt. Worn by girls. Made from vau (hibiscus fibres). Consisting of multiple strands of rolled vau, wrapped and knotted around braided strands of vau, forming the waistband.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1924.113
  • Accession Date
    1924
  • Other Id

    9605 (ethnology)

  • Department
Liku, 1924.113, 9605, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital,… … Read more

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