cloak
- Museum number
- Oc1933,0405.1
- Description
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Cloak, kaitaka. Paepaeroa, with taniko borders on three sides. Woven in double-pair twining, with nine warps per centimetre, and wefts spaced at 7 mm intervals. Upper edge is pair of rolling cords, one black (now largely missing) and one brown. There are three wedge-like areas of shaping from upper edge; from left to right they are of nine, seven and nine short wefts. Side borders are almost as wide as lower one; black in them all has deteriorated so badly that very little remains in place.
- Production date
- early 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 156 centimetres
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Width: 191.50 centimetres
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Depth: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Presented by Miss M.E. Ashby. Register: ‘…collected at least 100 yrs ago, possibly on Cook’s voyages.’
Comments: Late eighteenth/early nineteenth century (MP); Taranaki, c.1800 (DRS).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- The taniko borders are damaged by the black dye
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- Register information: 'Collected at least 100 years ago, possibly on Cook's voyages.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1933,0405.1