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Korowai, a cloak made of cotton (candlewick) warp and muka (processed New Zealand flax fibre) weft, a top edge of cotton tassles and possibly emu feathers.
The sides and lower edge are decorated with loops of red and black wool. The sides have pink wool binding along the edges. Decorative feathers have been spaced out and stitched on in a horizontal alternating pattern; many are missing. Black ties of synthetic cotton at the top were stitched on sometime after the cloak was made and have tassles at each end. There are three inserts in weft for shaping.
Owned and used by the donor's mother, Emily Numia Kirk (née Churton) of Pūtiki in the 1920s.
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