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People of Nauru wearing traditional grass skirts[citation needed]

In Fijian culture, women traditionally wore grass skirts called the liku.[1]

The Sotho people traditionally wore grass skirts called the mosotho.[2]

In the traditional imitshilo dances of the Xhosa, Thembu and Bomvana, boy dressed in long grass skirts called umhlambi and wore grass mask called ixonxo.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Me, Rondo B. B. (2004). Fiji Masi: An Ancient Art in the New Millennium. Catherine Spicer and Rondo B.B. Me. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-646-43762-0.
  2. ^ Hammond-Tooke, W. D. (1981). Boundaries and Belief: The Structure of a Sotho Worldview. Witwatersrand University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-85494-659-4.
  3. ^ Annals of the South African Museum. South African Museum. 1988. p. 581.
  4. ^ Hammond-Tooke, W. D. (1975). Command Or Consensus: The Development of Transkeian Local Government. David Philip. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-949968-41-8.