Te riri

Plant fibre from a repurposed te riri (dance skirt). The fibres are brittle and fine. They have been processed and possibly dyed to achieve their dark brown colour. Strands of the fibre are strung and knotted onto a central cord of te kora (coconut sennit). The fibres were originally intended to make a riri, but this garment has been repurposed to be used for keeping rats out of the eel trap associated with this object (24479.1).

Ingoa Kē

Dance skirt (English)

Wāhi

Gilbert Islands/Kiribati

Accession Number

1939.98

Rā Tāpiringa

17 May 1939

Tohu Tuakiri Kē

24479.2 (ethnology)

Wāhanga

Pacific