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Pareu

human history
  • Other Name

    Waist garment (English)

  • Description

    Pareu. Dance skirt. Woven in check from kiriau (hibiscus fibre). Golden natural colour. Designed to wrap around the waist and tied with the two braided ties attached at each end. Curved shape when opened out and laid flat. Decorative use of shells glued towards one side of the pareu.

  • Place
  • Associated Place
  • Accession Number
    1972.97
  • Accession Date
    30 May 1972
  • Other Id

    45470.2 (ethnology)

  • Department
Pareu, 1972.97, 45470.2, Photographed by Andrew Hales,… … Read more

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