DKH01-025_kuna_pasa - Kuna pasa (Tapuka nambay isipon) ‘The front fringe of a grass skirt’ (‘An old woman peeing’)

Description:

This figure represents an old woman urinating. In the past, when women wore grass skirts, they had a special way of moving them both when they sat down in the house, or when they went to urinate. The fringes of the grass skirt were carefully lifted with a special, recognisable move when a woman crouched to urinate, and then patted back down after she stood up again, which the string figure-make...

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2018

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