Grass skirt
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A grass skirt is a costume and garment made with layers of plant fibres—such as grasses and leaves—that is fastened at the waistline.
Kini Kapahu Wilson and fellow hula dancer wearing grass skirts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
South sea islander wearing a liku
Maori cultural group performing, wearing piupiu c. 1943
People of Nauru wearing traditional, short grass skirts called ridi, c. 1914
Kiekie (clothing)
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A kiekie is a Tongan dress, an ornamental girdle around the waist, mainly worn by women on semiformal occasions, but nowadays also sometimes by men. At highly formal occasions both gender will settle
Grass skirt
…The Sotho people traditionally wore grass skirts called the mosotho. Kiekie, from Tonga Brawley, S.; Dixon, C. (2012), Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour, Palgrave Macmillan US, p. 114…
The farmer's wife wears a kiekie knitted from plastic rope. The round shapes are known as vana (sea-urchins)
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