Grass skirt, or piupiu
Artist:
MAORI
Date: 1980
Medium: Flax, black mud
Dimensions:
39 3/8 × 26 15/16 in. (100 × 68.5 cm)
Classification: Costume
Credit Line: Gift of Elsa and Julian Waller
Object number: 1996.18.1
DescriptionOuter layer of flax is scraped away in sections that are to be dyed. Fibers are layered and soaked in black mud. Two brown stripes at top with one at bottom. Pattern of stripes and checkered sections.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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