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  2. Grass skirt - Wikipedia

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    Grass skirts were introduced to Hawaii by immigrants from the Gilbert Islands around the 1870s to 1880s [3] although their origins are attributed to Samoa as well. [4] [5] According to DeSoto Brown, a historian at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, it is likely Hawaiian dancers began wearing them during their performances on the vaudeville circuit of the United States mainland.

  3. Barkcloth - Wikipedia

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    Barkcloth jacket from Kalimantan, Indonesia Fijian masi Hawaiian kapa from the 18th century. Barkcloth or bark cloth is a versatile material that was once common in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Barkcloth comes primarily from trees of the family Moraceae, including Broussonetia papyrifera , Artocarpus altilis , Artocarpus tamaran , and Ficus ...

  4. Talk:Grass skirt - Wikipedia

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    A grass skirt is a skirt made from fronds of plant material, rather than a woven fabric. They have been found around the world, by both men and women, in places where suitable fibres were more easily available than woven material.

  5. Pa'u riders - Wikipedia

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    Adele Kauilani Robinson Lemke as a Pa'u Rider in her long skirt, 1913 The Pa'u Queen of the 100th Anniversary Kamehameha Day Floral Parade. June 11, 2016. The term pāʻū means skirt in the Hawaiian language. [3] [4] Riders initially began wearing long skirts to protect their legs while traveling. Over time, as the riders took part in ...

  6. Kiekie (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    The characteristic of a kiekie is that it is between a mat and a grass skirt (manafau): it is a string skirt attached to a waistband. It is supposed to be somewhat transparent, showing the skirt or tupenu worn under it. The strings can be short as a mini skirt, or down to the ankles, but down to somewhat above the knees is most common.

  7. Mino (straw cape) - Wikipedia

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    A mino straw cape. A mino (蓑) is a traditional Japanese raincoat made out of straw.Traditional mino are an article of outerwear covering the entire body, although shorter ones resembling grass skirts were also historically used to cover the lower body alone.

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    Or as DeadpoolWilson comically put it, "Let me just break my legs real quick." Editors at Mashable even gave it a go and documented their results . It seems like you're either a natural pretzel ...

  9. Cordyline fruticosa - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian hula skirt is a dense skirt with an opaque layer of at least fifty green leaves and the bottom (top of the leaves) shaved flat. The Tongan dance dress, the sisi , is an apron of about 20 leaves, worn over a tupenu , and decorated with some yellow or red leaves.