Blanket Or Cloak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 13 Sep 1948
name: label: Donor Name
content: Frederic B. Hyde
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Hand woven blanket. Maori. Wakarewarewa [presumably Whakarewarewa], near Rutaruea [presumably Rotorua], North Island, New Zealand. Rectangular, twisted Phormium tenax, flax warp fiber extending at both ends as short fringes is crossed and secured at one-half inch intervals with hand plaited weft of same material; plain rudiments of former brown dyed fiber tassels interwoven in twined weft still present. Excellent old specimen but somewhat stained and disintegrated with holes. Fitted. Completely plain cloak; any decoration is gone, no taniko, but fringes on 3 sides. Was it a korowai?"
label: Notes
content: A cloak, Kaitaka.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Apr 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rotorua / Whakarewarewa, North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui), New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 180469
label: USNM Number
content: E386675-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 136 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 140.5 cm