Flax Cloak
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1840
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. Cadwalader Ringgold
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "KAITAKA PAEPAEROA" CLOAK WITH "TANIKO" BORDERS ON THREE SIDES WITH TWO BLOCKS AT LEFT AND RIGHT BOTTOM (WHICH ACCORDING TO D.R. SIMMONS ARE "TARANAKI" STYLE). THE "TANIKO" IS COMPOSED OF CHEVRON & DOUBLE CHEVRON PATTERNS IN BLACK, BROWN & NATURAL WITH ADDITIONS OF RED, GREEN ANDPURPLE WOOLS. THERE ARE 146 CONTINUOUS WEFT ROWS AT THE NECK & 149 AT THE LOWER BORDER, AVERAGING 1 CM. IN WIDTH. THERE ARE SEVENTEEN VERTICAL INSERTS ON THE RIGHT & TWELVE AT THE LEFT. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG, AND OLD TAG PAPER READS, "CADWALADER RINGGOLD, EX EX PORPOIS, N. ZEALAND MAT." FROM LATE 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBITION LABEL WITH CARD [which may not apply to object currently numbered 3768 in 2009?]: "BLANKETS -(2) WOVEN OF FLAX AND ORNAMENTED WITH A COLORED BORDER, WHICH IN EACH OF THE FOUR CORNERS ASSUMES THE FORM OF A LARGE RECTANGULAR PORTION. USED AS SHAWLS.." EXAMINED BY MARTHA COOPER, 1967, D.R. SIMMONS, 1974, AND D.T. KAHOTEA, 1984. LENT TO BISHOP MUSEUM 1978, RETURNED 1978.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Old label: 'C. Ringgold, Ese Ese Poipois, N. Zealand mat'. D. R. Simmons: Paepaeroa cloak with taniko (taranaki style) on three sides with two blocks at left and right bottom. Some red wool used in the taniko. Weft lines 1 cm. Apart with sixteen vertical inserts on left side and ten inserts on right side and double insert at the centre. Nov 1974."
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "3766-75. ORNAMENTED."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue identifies # 523 - 530 as "Blanket mats called "Kaitoke" woven by hand from thread made of the native flax (Phormium tenax)." Additional information from D.R. Simmons, Curator, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 1973. Simmons notes that these cloaks would more properly be called Kaitaka, i.e. flax cloaks with patterned taniko borders, because Kaitoke = earthworm.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Apr 2018
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: E3768-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloak
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: ca. 1 m
label: Unknown - Object
content: ca. 1 m
label: Length - Object
content: 137.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 176 cm