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. Displayed in the exhibition Pasifika Styles, 2006-2008, in the installation ‘Mrs Cook’s Kete’ (2006). A. Salmond 10/10/2006
Event Date 8/9/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Bag woven from muka (fibre of New Zealand flax - Phormium tenax). Decorated with mawhitiwhiti pattern in un-dyed and gold-dyed muka. Handwritten labels by the artist: recto ‘Muka (NZ flax fibre) natural + dyed gold’; verso ‘E.C. 34’, label two: ‘Kete muka mawhitiwhiti pattern NZ’.
Event Date 8/9/2009
Author: maa