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: E4480

: World Cultures

: Clothing

: Pandarus palm-leaf filaments and stained pieces of the paper mulberry bark. The strips down are mostly fawn in colour with an occasional green strip. The frill falling from the waist band is made of squares of red and rectangles and strips of brown, each overlain with a fawn triangle. The waist band is elaborately made in red, green, fawn and brown folded strips attached in lines of the same colour and above and below these are stitched and looped narrow bands of leaf, orange in colour below and light brown above the waist band.

: Unknown, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: Unknown, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

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: Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific