Dance skirt
The strands of this kilt swirl gracefully when the wearer moves. The Maori prepare the flax fibre using a scraper such as a mussel shell and sometimes it is dyed. Flax garments such as this continue to be worn by men, women and children at social, ceremonial and public performances. Like other valued items the piupiu would have embodied the spirit (mana) of its maker.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 81/1964/1/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Material
- flax (phormium tenax)
- Common Name
- dance skirt
- Simple Name
- skirt
- Production Country
- New Zealand
- Production Year High
- pre 1964
