piupiu (Skirt)

Presented as a gift to MOA and the Musqueam Band in 2008 in honour of Michael Ames’ life work in building relationships between museums and indigenous people.

Skirt composed of strands of alternating beaten and unbeaten flax stalks forming a horizontal striped pattern where the unbeaten stalks are a light yellow colour, and the beaten segments are a dark brown colour. The stalks hang from a woven waistband made of dark brown braided fibre with long ties on each end, also braided.