cloak
- Museum number
- Oc1982,Q.718
- Description
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Cloak, kaitaka. Huaki, with two bands of taniko around three sides, characteristic of huaki form. At the top is another taniko band, but this has been added later, not woven as part of the garment. All taniko is in traditional colours with elements of coloured wool. Kaupapa is woven in fine double-pair twining, with ten warps per centimetre, and wefts are spaced at 3–4 mm. It is decorated with strips of cured animal skin cut in 1-cm-wide strips, with long, fine, wavy hair attached to them with linen (?) thread. On a traditional garment these would be strips of dog-tail skin but in this instance they are angora goat hair, which is long, up to 18 cm.
- Production date
- early 19thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 88 centimetres
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Width: 127.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Unknown.
Comments: Foundation is early nineteenth century, additions of top taniko and goat hair are later (MP); Taranaki, c.1910 (DRS). References: Pendergrast 1996: 138.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1998 27 June-7-1 Nov, London, BM, Maori
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition details unknown.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1982,Q.718