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Kete

human history
  • Other Name

    Bag (English)

  • Description

    Kete. Bag. For carrying personal items. Woven from rauara (pandanus leaf) strips with overlaid dyed-pink and dyed-black apuraka (giant swamp taro) akamanea (decoration). Kete has flap, flat, rectangular shape. Woven in combination of natural-colour rauara twill and check with overlaid dyed-pink and dyed-black apuraka decoration.

    Pattern on the flap is the matautua (lines of triangles with apices touching) motif in dyed-black overlaid apuraka strips with dyed-pink apuraka woven in check below it. Pattern on lower body of the kete is of right leaning diagonal dyed-black apuraka bars and left leaning dyed-pink apuraka bars overlaid on natural coloured rauara. Pupu (shell) toggle for securing the flap.

  • Place
    Rarotonga/Cook Islands
  • Accession Number
    1985.340
  • Accession Date
    23 Sep 1985
  • Other Id

    51921 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1985.340, 51921, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 22 Jun 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply

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