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Late 19th century fine flax Maori cloak (Korowai) with Touches…
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Auckland
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19-Jun-2013
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Late 19th century fine flax Maori cloak (Korowai) with Touches of wool decoration. A traditional hand woven Maori cloak made of dressed phormium (New Zealand flax, Harakeke). The warp-whenu, and weft-aho, are worked in double finger pair twining - whatu aho rua. The cloak is adorned with black thrums - hukahuka over the main body - kaupapa. The side and lower borders are decorated with looped wools in red, blue, green and brown, in a block pattern. Also worked in a block pattern regularly spaced are wools red, blue, purple and brown thread worked as decorative supplementary wefts, over the kaupapa. Description by Rangi Te Kanawa. 108 x 109 cm
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Tribal: New Zealand Maori