Cloak
Object Number: | P3082 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Maori |
Provenience: | New Zealand |
Section: | Oceanian |
Materials: | Flax Pigment |
Description
Flax cloak (kaitaka) with three taanko borders in dark and light brown: two narrow borders along the sides with zig-zag lines and one, somewhat broader, border at the bottom with repeated triangle variations.Twisted light-darkt border along the undecorated edge. which has an asymmetrical, pronounced, curve. The vertical wefts identify this as a particular fine kind of kaitaka called paepaeroa.
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