Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label attached by the artist: recto ‘Hukahuka tags for Korowai (cloak)’; verso ‘E.C.77’.
Event Date
Author: Rachel Hand

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)
Muka (fibre of New Zealand flax - Phormium tenax) dyed dark brown and twisted into 49 strands bound at one end. Threads on end after binding left loose. Each strand has knot tied into it near binding.
Event Date 1/6/2006
Author: maa