Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in blue ball point:] ‘E 1897.91. POLYNESIA. NEW ZEALAND [underlined]. KILT (with cylinders). Much deteriorated. Rev C.L. Acland. R. 1897.568.'
[later addition handwritten in pencil:] 'KW. Clothing. Legs & Body below waist.' [Red circular sticker bottom left of card].
7 black and white photographs of object (all labelled 1897.91) attached to back of card.


Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Replacement catalogue card 1 for E 1897.91 notes in blue ball opint pen, 'Kilt with cylinders. Much deteriorated.'

Event Date 1896
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'E 1896.48 POLYNESIA New Zealand. Rain-mat. D [underlined] The Rev. C.L. Acland, M.A. R. 1896.568.';

Annotated later in black ink by H.D Skinner: 'Corrosive action of black native dye is destroying this example. H.D.S.'.
Annotated later in pencil: 'E 1897.91';
Handwritten in pencil on back of card:] '1897.90 Mantle, with plaited top & red & blue dec. Acland. ?Coll. c.1860. cf. Z 6[...] see [blank].'
Event Date 1896
Author: Rachel Hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label attached to artefact: ‘1897.91 Kilt New Zealand Rev. C.L. Acland.’ On reverse of label: ‘Report 1897 568.’
Event Date 1897
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Accession register entry for for E 1896.48 notes A rain mat of phormium tenax'
Event Date 1897
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Related Documents)
1896.48 crossed out in accession register (p33) and reaccessioned as 1897.91 (p45). Annual Report number is AR 1897.568.
Event Date 1897
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Record checked and revised by Amiria Salmond, 16/10/2001.
Event Date 16/10/2001
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Skirt made from the dressed fibre and leaves of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax), ornamented with red and green wool. The garment is in an extremely fragile state, and parts have already disintegrated. The waistband, which is a three-stranded plait incorporating the warps, is now almost completely detached.
The body of the garment remains mainly intact, although many cylinders have fallen off. Wefts are about 35mm apart, four stitches to the centimetre. Red wool is snaked through the wefts across the body of the piece and attached in toggle-like decorations. Toggles of khaki-green wool are woven in near the waistband and down the sides of the garment. Cylinders coloured with red ochre are interspersed across the piece.
Event Date 30/11/2001
Author: maa