Te Kohinga Taoka Māori
Collection Record
Tool, Weaving
Pair of wooden weaving sticks with sample of twined flax fibre tied between them. Both weaving sticks taper to a point at distal end, with a groove at the proximal end to which is attached the weaving. One of the sticks is broken at the proximal end. Coarse muka with 8 rows of double pair twining plus an insert row and commencement row. Commencement row has scalloped weft introduced and short pieces of black flax fibre forming decoration.
Provenance Place:
Unlocalised, New Zealand
D25.733
Details
- Provenance Place
- Unlocalised, New Zealand
- Cultural Group
- Unlocalised, Māori, Polynesian, Pacific
- Measurements
- 535mm (21 1/16")
- Credit Line
- Thomson Collection
- Rights
- All rights reserved
- Department
- Taoka Maori
- Accession Number
- D25.733
- On Display
- No
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