National Geographic : 1956 Apr
563 Small Fry Tag Along in the Community Dance Basic ritual costume for both men and women is a green skirt made by splitting a coconut frond and tying half of it around the waist. Heads carry garlands of flowers and graceful white rooster feathers embedded in blocks of pith or cotton batting. Blades of unopened coconut leaves-ivory-white and pale greenish-yellow-provide flat necklaces, anklets, and bracelets. - Boy at far left wears a full dress suit of coconut blades. - +Last child in line dresses fore and aft in tufts of dried fern leaves, the conventional attire for Ifalik girls of her age (page 551).