ID: 700001787 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001787	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Costume mat (skirt (garment); Unknown; 1800s; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; FE000116)

Note: This is an example of a costume mat from the Marshall Islands, which is no longer made. A woman's costume consisted of two quite small square mats (usually about ninety by ninety centimetres as here), not necessarily matching. One mat was wrapped around the front of the body and the other around the back, overlapping the first, but leaving a gap in the front in which part of the first could be seen. The two mats were held in place by a girdle of some kind, often a string of shells or shell beads.

Titles:

Costume mat (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

skirt (garment) [300209932] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), clothing, main garments, <main garments for the lower body>)

Classifications:

costume / clothing (preferred)

Creation Date: 1800s

Creator Display:

Unknown [preferred,VP]

weaver unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: FE000116

Credit Line: Purchased 1911

Marshall Islands [7016730] Oceania (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: pandanus and other plant fibres

	plant fiber [300014031]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, fiber, natural fiber)

	Pandanus (genus) [300379319]
	.......(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Liliopsida (class), Pandanales (order), Pandanaceae (family))

	leaf (plant material) [300011892]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material)

Dimensions: Overall: 900 (length) x 890 (width) mm

General Subject:

apparel (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Costume mat	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=160511; accessed 20 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=160511; accessed 20 August 2012