Traditional skirts for ritual dance

Preparing for traditional dance celebration of first independence anniversary. Young women revitalize custom: these woven mat skirts were different than the twisted banana fiber skirts that were used by non-missionized locals in the island interior in 1981.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• Land and Custom Sustained and Revived

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• South West Bay (Malakula, Vanuatu)
• Vanuatu
• Wintua (Malekula, Vanuatu)

• Clothing and dress
• Vanuatu Independence

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

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2021-11-16