loin-mat

Updated: October 8, 2024

He is a very tall, strongly-made man of about sixty, with a high forehead, long, hooked nose, wide mouth, thin lips and white beard. His dress is the old-fashioned loin-mat, and around his wrists he wears heavy strands of shell money. His wife, too, is very tall and strong, with quiet, dignified movements; she may be forty years old.

Felix Speiser - Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific