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 8/9/2009
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Seed of New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax) in black plastic box. Label attached by artist: recto ‘NZ flax phormium tenax’; verso ‘EC87’.
Event Date 8/9/2009
Author: maa

Description ()
Stored in polystyrene crystal box
Plastics Project 26.05.2017 R Ward
Event Date 26/5/2017
Author: Rhian Ward