cloak
- Museum number
- Oc1982,Q.720
- Description
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Cloak (korowai) made of New Zealand flax fibre with black dyed tags.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1895)
- Dimensions
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Height: 130 centimetres
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Width: 166 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Found unnumbered. Label "CF [Christy Fund] 16.10.[18]95. Meinertzhagen." Presumably acquired with Christy 1895-343 etc. but not registered at the time. (AMD,3/1996).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Tags are shedding and disintegrating.
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1982,Q.720