Flax Cloak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "KOROWAI," FLAX CLOAK FRINGED, AND DECORATED WITH TWO-PLY TWISTED AND DYED BLACK CORDS TIED ALONG THE NECK & LOWER BORDERS WITH NATURAL TAGS ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT BORDERS. RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS ALSO HAVE PATTERNS OF RED, BLACK, AND GREEN WOOL THREAD CROSS-HATCHING. SOME WHITE WOOL HAS BEEN USED AS POMPOMS. THERE ARE 108 CONTINOUS WEFT ROWS WHICH AVERAGE 0.8 CM. IN WIDTH. SIX SIMPLE ELLIPTICAL INSERTS AT THE SHOULDER AND BUTTOCKS GIVE SHAPE TO THE GARMENT. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED BY M. COOPER, 1967, D.R. SIMMONS, 1974, AND DESCRIBED BY DESMOND KAHOTEA, 1984.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3766-75. ORNAMENTED." FROM SECOND CARD: "D. R. SIMMONS: KOROWAI-NGORE CLOAK MADE FROM FLAX DECORATED WITH FINE UNCOLORED TAGS ON THE BODY OF THE CLOAK, TWO ROWS OF BLACK TAGS AT THE CENTRE AND THREE PANELS OF RED, BLACK AND GREEN WOOL STITCHING AT THE SIDES. SOME WHITE WOOL HAS BEEN USED AS POMPOMS. WEFT LINES ARE .9 CM. APART WITH SIX WEFT INSERTS AT THE SHOULDER LINE. NOV. 1974."."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 515 - 522 as "Flax mantles called "Meamuka" made and used by the natives of New Zealand." Additional notes from D.R. Simmons, Curator, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 1973: "Mea muka = things made from muka or flax fibre."
label: Notes
content: Cloak has some evidence of old water staining/damage.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Nov 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) / Bay of Islands, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3771-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 104.5 cm
label: Width - Bottom
content: 142 cm
label: Width - Top
content: 155 cm
label: Width - Top, From Card
content: 136.5 cm
label: Depth - Top, From Card
content: 104.5 cm
label: Width - Bottom, From Card
content: 153 cm
label: Length - , Tags, From Card
content: 16 cm
label: Length - , Tags, From Card
content: 24 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 104.5 cm
label: Width - Object Bottom
content: 142 cm
label: Width - Object Top
content: 155 cm