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Knee length woman’s skirt for best wear, constructed from many long strips of shredded leaf tied in to a running belt of plaited pandanus leaf. The skirt is constructed in several vertical stripes of dyed fibres which run orange purple green, orange purple green, and three long straps of pandanus leaf hang down in the middle of the skirt over the green sections.
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