Grass skirts (3) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 76122 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Metroxylon sp | Entry Book Number | 4.2000.60 | |
| Artefact Name | Grass skirts (3) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Papua New Guinea | TDWG Region | Papua New Guinea | ||
| Parts Held | Grass skirts (3) | Geography Description | Papua New Guinea, Asia Tropical, Malesia | ||
| Uses | Grass skirts (3)Use: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Klappa S | Collector No | 221, 371, 399 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1999 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Grass skirts from fibres of immature sago pinnae, coloured red with Bixa orellana, and black with mud. String from tulip inner bark Gnetum gnemon. The purple/grey green parts are Musa ingens. The orange/grey are Arecaceae. | ||||
| Determinations: | 17.01 BIXACEAE Bixa orellana 170.04 MUSACEAE Musa ingens N.W.Simmonds 187.00 PALMAE Metroxylon sp 203.00 GNETACEAE Gnetum gnemon | ||||