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Kete

human history
  • Other Name

    Bag (English)

  • Description

    Kete. Bag. For carrying personal items. Woven from rauara (pandanus leaf) with overlaid dyed-brown/red apuraka (giant swamp taro) akamanea (decoration). Large and rectangular in shape. Commencement at base and finished at rim with a patara (serrated) decorative edge. Natural colour rauara is overlaid with with dyed-brown/red apuraka strips in paralleologram geometric designs to create decorative bands at the upper and lower ends of the body of the kete.

    One tatai (handle) made of rauara and dyed apuraka, attached to the rim.

  • Place
    Rarotonga/Cook Islands
  • Accession Number
    1917.69
  • Accession Date
    1917
  • Other Id

    8612 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol, digital, 04 Jul 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • bag; 1917.69; 8612

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