cloak
- Museum number
- Oc,NZ.134
- Description
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Feather cloak, kahu huruhuru, made of New Zealand flax. Woven in double-pair twining, with selvedge commencement at bottom, and seven warps per centimetre and wefts spaced at 7 mm intervals. Edge warp at each side is a pair of cords, one of undyed flax, other of red wool. Wefts are knotted at each end and feathers placed on alternate wefts. Most of kaupapa is covered with kiwi feathers, with wide band of white feathers at bottom and on both sides, on which rectilinear pattern of tui feathers is arranged. At the centre is a group of five interpolated short wefts forming an area of shaping. Red, yellow and green woollen cords are included in finish; there are no warp fringes at top corners.
- Dimensions
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Height: 114.50 centimetres
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Width: 164.50 centimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Provenance: Unknown.
Comments: Whanganui, c.1880 (DRS).
References: Pendergrast 1996: 143.
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Illustrated in D.C. Starzecka (ed), Maori : Art and culture, London, British Museum Press, 1996, 1998, fig. 109, p.143.
Blue feathers were identified as being tui by Mick Pendergrast
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition details unknown.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,NZ.134
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc????D19.134 (old CDMS no.)