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 WITH NATURAL COLOR TAGS ATTACHED IN DOUBLE ROWS ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT BORDER, AND IN EIGHT WEFT ROWS OF ALTERNATE PATTERN. THE TOP AND BOTTOM SEEM UNFINISHED WITH LOOSE WEFTS HANGING FREE. THERE ARE 50 COMPLETE WEFT ROWS, WHICH AVERAGE 2 CM. IN WIDTH. NINE SIMPLE ELLIPTICAL INSERTS AT THE CENTER GIVE SHAPE TO THE GARMENT. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. EXAMINED BY M. COOPER, 1967, D.R. SIMMONS, 1974, AND DESCRIBED BY D.T. KAHOTEA, 1984. NOTE: THE CLOAK NOW CALLED E3833 HAD AT ONE TIME BEEN CALLED # 3832B. IT IS EVIDENTLY A WILKES CLOAK, BUT THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE CLOAK UNDER # 3832. SINCE CATALOG # 3833 WAS LACKING INVENTORY DATA, THE NUMBER 3833 WAS TENTATIVELY ASSIGNED TO THE FORMER 3832B. THE CLOAK FORMERLY CALLED 3832A, PEALE NUMBER 521, IS NOW JUST E3832.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3832 (A,B). FLAX MANTLES CALLED MEANUIKA..." D.R. SIMMONS: KOROWAI CLOAK WITH FINE BLACK TAGS. WEFT LINES ABOUT 3 CM APART WITH HORIZONTAL INSERTS AT SHOULDER. FINE BLACK TAGS. 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: 2 Apr 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: E3832-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 94 cm
label: Width - Bottom
content: 142 cm
label: Width - Top
content: 155 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 94 cm
label: Width - Object Bottom
content: 142 cm
label: Width - Object Top
content: 155 cm