Coconut Husk
65-8-38
From: Caroline Islands | Nukuoro
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 65-8-38 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Caroline Islands | Nukuoro |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Coconut Husk |
| Description | Dried cocount husk (duugaha). Dried and cured (a month in sea water) husk of drinking coconut; twilled to make string and also used as sponge to soak up water, as in drying out canoe bottoms. |
| Length | 30 cm |
| Width | 3.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Vern Carroll, 1965 |
| Other Number | 55 - Other Number |
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