Kete
Kete. Bag. For carrying personal items. Kete is woven from natural coloured rauara (pandanus leaf) strips with dyed-black apuraka (giant swamp taro) akamanea (decoration). Rectangular in shape. The kete has a patara (serrated rim). Braided double tatai (handle) attached to rim of kete using light-coloured cotton thread. Tatai is broken. Overlaid dyed-black strips form ata (heart) motifs and are placed horizontally across the middle of the kete. A border of natural-coloured rauara triangles with their apices facing in the right-hand direction sits below the motifs. A row of ara veri (twilled twos) sits below and above the motifs.
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- Te reo Name
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- Common Name
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- Other Name
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Bag (English)
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- Description
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- Place
- Cook Islands
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- Field Collection Place
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- Field Collection Site
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- Collection Date
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- Field Collection Date
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- Accession Number
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1953.186.14
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1953
- Other Id
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33547.6 (ethnology)
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- Department
- Display Room
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