photographic print(black and white)
- Museum number
- Oc,B127.50
- Description
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Photograph (black and white); a Tūhoe woman sitting on the ground working kiekie (a woody climber in the pandanus family); she has a chin moko (tattoo) and wears a patterned cloth shirt and woven plant fibre skirt; Whakatane, New Zealand.
Gelatin silver print
- Production date
- 1939
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 centimetres (image)
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Height: 15.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 7.90 centimetres (image)
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Width: 10.20 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Related images: Oc,B127 and Oc,B128 are one collection of images from New Zealand, by Werner Kissling taken in the late 1930's. Some of the same Kissling images can be found in the photographic collection of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Images Oc,B127.50 through Oc,B128.4 all depict the same woman working with plant fibre. Oc,G.T.2667 is a lantern slide of this image. Oc,F.N.3971 is the negative for this image.
Description: this image was accompanied by an index card typed by Werner Kissling, which reads:
"Pol. N.Z.
Plant Fibres.
Stripping KIEKIE.
Whakatane River, Ruatoki district,
North Island.
A tall root-climber, the massive KIEKE (Freycinetia Banksii, pandanus family) with long narrow leaves, found only in the warmer parts, was used mainly as material for floormats, both coarse and fine. m Ordinary everyday-style shoulder capes of the same materal were, however, more durable than those usually made of phormium.
W. Kissling (1939)."
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,B127.50
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 50 (Kissling number)
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Miscellaneous number: F.N. 3971 (film negative)