Accession No
2006.296
Description
Sample - Muka (fibre from New Zealand flax - Phormium tenax) in plastic box. Two labels attached by artist: Label one: ‘muka strands flax fibre’. Label two: recto ‘NZ flax phormium tenax’; verso ‘EC88’. ‘strands are yellow. R.Hand 01/2008’
Place
Oceania; Polynesia; Aotearoa New Zealand; Auckland
Period
Source
Lander, Maureen [artist and vendor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
2006.296; E.C. 88
Cultural Affliation
Material
Plastic; Plant; Leaf; Fibre; polystyrene
Local Term
Muka
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 8/9/2009
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Muka (fibre from New Zealand flax - Phormium tenax) in plastic box. Two labels attached by artist: Label one: ‘muka strands flax fibre’. Label two: recto ‘NZ flax phormium tenax’; verso ‘EC88’. ‘strands are yellow. R.Hand 01/2008’
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
FM:265701
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