Liku
Waist garment; dress; skirt; made of plant fibres: pandanus and hibiscus bark fibre. There are two long braided ties at both ends of the waistband with knots near their ends. The waistband consists of a thick braid woven from dyed-dark brown sennit fibres in three-ply plait , from which extends loose strips of fibre which are bound and interwoven to the sennit waistband. The waist garment consists of multiple strips and strands of dyed-black, dyed-dark brown and natural pandanus; dyed-red-brown, dyed-black and natural unprocessed hibiscus bark fibre and some strands are plaited decoratively in three-ply plait of natural and dyed-black pandanus strips. There are also five grey shells interwoven to the waist band.
- Collection Area
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- Te reo Name
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- Ingoa Kōrero Noa
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- Ingoa Kē
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Dance skirt (English)
Waist Ornament (English)
- Momo Ingoa Kē
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- Kupu whakaahua
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- Wāhi Hāngai
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- Field Collection Place
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- Wāhi Whāiti Taketake i Kohia ai
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- Rā Kohinga
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- Rā i Kohia i te Wāhi Taketake
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- Accession Number
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2018.67.1
- Rā Tāpiringa
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09 Nov 2018
- Tohu Tuakiri Kē
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- Momo Tohu Tuakiri Kē
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- Wāhanga
- Rūma Whakaatu
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- Herenga
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- Momo
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