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 COVERED WITH TWO-PLY TWISTED AND DYED BLACK TAGS WHICH ARE ALSO TIED ALONG ALL FOUR SIDES AS ADDITIONAL FRINGE. THERE ARE 97 WEFT ROWS, WITH A WIDTH OF 1.3 TO 1.5 CM. THE BLACK TAGS OR TIES ARE 2-PLY TWISTED CORD AVERAGING 12 CM. IN LENGTH. SIMPLE ELLIPTICAL INSERTS WHICH GIVE SHAPE TO THE GARMENT CAN BE SEEN AT THE SHOULDER AND BUTTOCKS. THIS CLOAK WAS NUMBERED INCORRECTLY AS 3776 (3776 IS A BASKET), AND THEN GIVEN T-17641, AND HAS NOW BEEN TENTATIVELY ASSIGNED THE CATALOGUE NUMBER 3773 SINCE THIS NUMBER IS MISSING INVENTORY DATA. EXAMINED BY M. COOPER 1967, D.R. SIMMONS 1974, AND DESCRIBED BY DESMOND KAHOTEA, 1984.
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: 1 Jul 2022
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: E3773-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Length - Object
content: 132 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 137 cm
label: Width - Top
content: 174 cm
label: Width - Bottom
content: 159 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 137 cm
label: Width - Object Bottom
content: 159 cm
label: Width - Object Top
content: 174 cm