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View full screenCloak (kaitaka) of dressed phormium fibre with closely woven border (taniko) in colours: Polynesia, New Zealand, Māori, 18th century
A.UC.830
New Zealand, Polynesia
18th century
Māori
Dressed phormium fibre with closely woven taniko border in colours
Cook, James, Captain, 1728 - 1779
Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760 - 1860 (21 May 2006 - 14 Sep 2008)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Musée du Quai Branly
Henare, Amiria, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 18-20, fig. 3