Accession No

2006.234


Description

Sample - Dried leaf of pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis). Label by artist: recto ‘Pingao Desmoschoenus spiralis’. verso ‘E.C. 23’.


Place

Oceania; Polynesia; Aotearoa New Zealand; Auckland


Period


Source

Lander, Maureen [artist and vendor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

2006.234; E.C. 23


Cultural Affliation


Material

Plant, Leaf


Local Term

Pingao


Measurements


Events

Context (CMS Context)
This is part of a body of works produced for the installation “Mrs. Cook’s Kete” mounted among the permanent displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, in 2002. This exhibition, a collaboration between New Zealand artists Maureen Lander and Christine Hellyar, drew inspiration from the idea that, had Elizabeth Cook ever accompanied her husband Captain James Cook to the Pacific, she might have learned weaving and other skills from local people during her travels. MAA purchased the bulk of individual works produced by Lander for this installation in 2004.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
Dried leaf of pingao (Desmoschoenus spiralis). Label by artist: recto ‘Pingao Desmoschoenus spiralis’. verso ‘E.C. 23’.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa


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