Fiber Skirt
Unidentified Kerewa maker
Goaribari Island
Papuan Gulf
Papua New Guinea
collected 1912
Grass
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. A. Lincoln Washburn, Class of 1935W
53.57.12918
Geography
Place Made: Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Place Made: Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by William Patten, 1912; Mrs. A. Lincoln Washburn [wife of Dr. Albert Lincoln Washburn, (1911-2007, Class of 1935), Dartmouth Professor of Geology,1953-1961]; given to present collection, 1953.
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