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 FRINGED, AND DECORATED WITHTWO-PLY TWISTED AND DYED BLACK CORDS WHICH ARE ALSO TIED ALONG SIDES AS ADDITIONAL FRINGE. THERE IS ALSO RED WOOL THREAD SEWN ALONG THE BORDERS AS DECORATION. MARKS> TAG PINNED TO CLOAK "KAKAHU, MEAMUKA, FLAXEN SHAWL FROM BAY OF ISLANDS". THIS CLOAK HAD THE CATALOGUE #3832B AND IS EVIDENTLY A WILKES CLOAK, PEALE NUMBER 519, BUT THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE CLOAK UNDER #3832. SINCE CATALOG #3833 IS LACKING INVENTORY DATA, THE NUMBER 3833 WAS TENTATIVELY ASSIGNED TO THIS CLOAK WHICH WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE MAORI CASE IN THE NMNH PACIFIC HALL [exhibit dismantled in 2004].
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: E3833-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak