cloak
- Museum number
- Oc,NZ.135
- Description
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Cloak, kaitaka. Paepaeroa with restrained decorative elements. Thrum commencement at one side with two close rows of double-pair twining and similar finish at other side. Fine weaving is in double-pair twining throughout, with six warps per centimetre and wefts spaced at 1.1 cm intervals. Finely plaited band forms upper border, lower border is three-ply rolled cord of brown dyed fibre. At the lower corners are small motifs, probably in single-pair twining rather than full taniko. At the upper corners is evidence of dog-skin ornamentation, which is on inside of garment and probably would be seen when corners hung down. Across main surface are three bands of brown warp added part way across. Towards one side of the garment is a small area of shaping in the form of a wedge from upper edge of four short wefts; other shaping takes form of minor adjustments to shape with single short weft.
- Production date
- 18thC (before 1780)
- Dimensions
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Height: 129.50 centimetres
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Width: 162 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Cook Collection. Register: ‘Cook Coll. No. 65’. Comments: Eighteenth century; northern South Island (DRS). References: Fraser 1989: 63, 99; Hamilton 1901: 336, pl. lxiii, fig. 1, top left and centre; Kaeppler 1978: 171; Pendergrast 1996: 136; Roth 1979: 57, no. 1, figs 35 and 35A; Simmons 1981: 48, fig. 8; Starzecka 1979: fig. 57.
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Illustrated (detail) in D.C. Starzecka (ed), Maori : Art and Culture, London, British Museum Press, 1996, 1998, p.136, fig. 98
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1979 – 1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Captain Cook in the South Seas
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1800
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during one of Cook's voyages, possibly first voyage. Registration slip information: 'Cook Coll: No. 65'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,NZ.135
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc17??D19.135 (old CDMS no.)