colorful straw raffia ethnic design

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Close up of colorful raffia skirt. Some people call them Grass Skirts while others know them as Raffia Skirts but it`s all the same thing. Raffia or Grass are the processed fibers of the Buri Plant indigenous to the Philippines. This is closeup of Yap dance skirt popular with ancient Indonesian or Philippine culture, and the Outer Island people descendants of a Melanesian or Polynesian culture.