Context (CMS Context)
From "Fun with Flax" by Mick Pendergrast; 1987; Reed Methuen; Auckland.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)
Woven man made of undyed New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax), cuboid plaited head tied to body.Handwritten label by the artist: recto ‘Flax man NZ’; verso ‘E.C. 64’.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa