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: FLAX CLOAK WITH FRINGE AT NECKLINE AND BOTTOM, WHICH IS ENTIRELY COVERED WITH TWO TYPES OF "HUKAHUKA" TAGS, ONE TYPE A TWISTED TWO-PLY, NATURAL COLOR TAG HANGING 18 CM., AND ARE THE OTHER A FLAXEN ROLL, "PIUPIU" WHICH HANG 16 CM. AND ARE DYED WITH BLACK STRIPES. THERE ARE 64 WEFT ROWS, EACH ROW IS 1.5 CM. WIDE. VARIOUS INSERTS WHICH GIVE SHAPE TO THE GARMENT INCLUDE TWO COMPOUND ELLIPTICALS INSERTS AT THE SHOULDER AND TEN COMPOUND ELLIPTICAL INSERTS AT THE BUTTOCK. MARKS> TAG, RIESENBERG NO. 5, ALSO T-9353. THIS NUMBER T-9353 HAS BEEN TENTATIVELY ASSIGNED TO CAT. NUMBER 3774 SINCE IT IS APPARENTLY A WILKES PIECE, AND CAT. NUMBER 3774 IS MISSING INVENTORY DATA. EXAMINED BY M. COOPER, 1967, DESCRIBED BY D.T. KAHOTEA, 1984.
label: Notes
content: ET09353
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3766-75. ORNAMENTED."
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: 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: E3774-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Length - Object
content: 84 cm
label: Width - Bottom
content: 136 cm
label: Width - Top
content: 124 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 87 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 84 cm
label: Width - Object Bottom
content: 136 cm
label: Width - Objecttop
content: 124 cm