Flax Cloak, "Ngore"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "NGORE," PLAIN FLAX CLOAK W/ BLUE, BLACK, BROWN, AND NATURAL COLORED WOOL POMPOMS ARRANGED ALONG THE LEFT AND RIGHT MARGINS, AND TWO DOG SKIN CORDS ATTACHED AT THE NECKLINE. THERE ARE 77 CONTINUOUS WEFT ROWS WHICH ARE 1.5 CM. APART. VARIOUS INSERTS WHICH GIVE SHAPE TO THE GARMENT INCLUDE EIGHT COMPOUND ELLIPTICAL INSERTS AT THE SHOULDERS AND TWELVE SIMPLE ELLIPTICAL INSERTS AT THE BUTTOCKS. EXAMINED BY M. COOPER, 1967, D.R. SIMMONS, 1974, DESCRIBED BY D.T. KAHOTEA, 1984.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3766-75. ORNAMENTED. LOANED TO MHT - 4/24/68. RETURNED 7/29/68." FROM SECOND CARD: "D. R. SIMMONS: NGORE CLOAK WITH POMPOMS IN RED AND BLACK TOGETHER WITH TUFTS OF UNTREATED SHEEP'S WOOL DOWN EACH SIDE. TWO STRIPS OF DOG SKIN ARE USED AS TYING STRINGS. WEFT LINES ARE 1.5 CM APART WITH THREE INSERTS AT THE SHOULDER AND NINE INSERTS AT THE BUTTOCKS. NOV. 1974. INVENTORIED 1975."
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: 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: E3766-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 143 cm
label: Width - Bottom
content: 143.5 cm
label: Width - Top
content: 157 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 143 cm
label: Width - Object Bottom
content: 143.5 cm
label: Width - Object Top
content: 157 cm