cloak
- Museum number
- Oc1982,Q.735
- Description
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Feather cloak, kahu huruhuru, made of New Zealand flax fibre, feathers, fibre, wool. Woven in double-pair twining, with six warps per centimetre and wefts, knotted off at both end, spaced at 9 mm intervals; another, of four short wefts, two-thirds of way down.
- Dimensions
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Height: 100.30 centimetres
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Width: 139.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Mick Pendergrast:
Kereru, kaka and black and white fowl (?) feathers
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Acquisition details unknown.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1982,Q.735