Kete

Kete. Bag. For carrying personal items. Woven from rauara (pandanus leaf) strips with overlaid dyed-brown/red and dyed-black apuraka (giant swamp taro) akamanea (decoration). Large in size, with flat, rectangular shape. The kete has is finished with a patara (serrated) rim. Overlaid dyed-brown/red and dyed-black strips of apuraka form surface patterns consisting of a row of twilled threes along both the upper and lower areas of bag. Mirrored patara (zig-zag) patterns decorated with rows of ara veri (twilled twos) are across the middle area of kete. Two tatai (handles).

Other Name

Bag (English)

Place

Cook Islands

Accession Date

Circa 1915

Other Id

12891 (ethnology)

Department

Pacific