| Brief Description |
Korowai, a cloak of cotton (candlewick) warp and muka (processed New Zealand flax fibre) weft with a 7 cm wide feather band on the sides and along the lower edge.
A two-ply twisted strand of black wool is along the upper edge of the lower border. The feathers are domestic fowl. Along the cloak's top edge is a single fringe of light brown-speckeld domestic fowl feathers. The ties are twisted cotton fibre with cotton and black wool tassles. Fowl feather decoration in widely spaced alternate rows.
Owned and used by the donor's mother, Emily Numia Kirk (née Churton) of Pūtiki in the 1920s.
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