Rapaki Kilt, Cincture
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "RAPAKI," KILT MADE WITH TAGS (PIUPIU) WHICH FORM THE WARPS. BY FREEING ONE END OF THE WARP, SUCCESSIVE ADDITION OF WARP LENGTHS BECOME FLAXEN ROLLS. THE WAIST BORDER IS COMPOSED OF TWO-PLY BRAID, AND A FASTENING CORD IS TIED TO THE WARP PASSING THROUGH THE WAIST BRAID. THERE ARE SEVEN WEFT ROWS COMPOSED OF SINGLE-PLY DOUBLE TWINE 5 CM. WIDE. THIS PIECE HAD BEEN ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT, BUT BECAUSE OF DETERIORATION WAS REMOVED IN 1972. EXAMINED BY M. COOPER, 1967, D.R. SIMMONS, 1974, AND DESCRIBED BY D.T. KAHOTEA, 1984.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS IS A RAPAKI CINCTURE - S. H. RIESENBERG SAME AS 3763 WITH FINE PIUPIU COVERING WEFT LINES 5 AND 4 CM APART WITH NO SHAPING INSERTS. D. R. SIMMONS NOV. 1974. THIS WAS USED ON A FIGURE IN THE EXHIBIT CASE, BUT IN DEC. 1972 WHEN THE EXHIBIT WAS BEING WORKED OVER, IT WAS FOUND THAT THE GRASS FIBRES WERE DETERIORATING AND IT COULD NOT BE PUT BACK ON EXHIBIT. CONSERVATION LAB COULD DO NOTHING TO RESTORE IT. R.ELDER. INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: As of 2010, this object is in extremely fragile condition.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 534 as "Rapaki" or cincture, worn by the women of New Zealand in their dances."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E3762-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Kilt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 97 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 97 cm