Grass skirt
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Grass skirt are skirts made of layers of grasses and fasten at the waistline.[1]
In Fijian culture, women traditionally wore skirts called the liku made from hibiscus or root fibers and grass.[2][3]
The Sotho people traditionally wore grass skirts called the mosotho.[4]
References
- ^ Picken, Mary Brooks (24 July 2013). A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern. Courier Corporation. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-486-14160-2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bishop Museum Handbook. Bishop Museum Press. 1915. p. 48.
- ^ 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.
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