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Accession No	2004.74.6
Name/Title	KETE MUKA HURUHURU: BAG
Brief Description	Kete muka huruhuru, a woven bag of muka (processed New Zealand flax fibre) decorated with white and brown domestic fowl feathers (most lost to moth damage) with a 2.5 cm deep band of taniko along the top edge in undyed and dark brown dyed muka, a row of blue and pink wool threaded along lower edge of taniko border (on one side only present at each end due to moth damage) and two handles of very finely plaited muka. Owned and used by the donor's mother, Emily Numia Kirk (née Churton) of Pūtiki in the 1920s.
Classification	Bag/Personal Gear/Personal Artifacts/Nomenclature
Credit Line	Putikiwharanui, Whanganui
Primary Prod Date	1920s
Primary Prod Period	20th century
Primary Prod Place	Pūtikiwharanui/Whanganui
Measurement Reading	19cm 27cm

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