3 belts made from Screw Pine/ pandanus leaves. Each is made from many layers of long leaves coiled together to form the waist. Shorter lengths of pandanus leaf have been tied together to form bunches, the tops of these have string coiled around them to form a stem which is then attached to one side of the belt. The outside of the waist sections have all been decorated with vertical satrapies of brown pigment.
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