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Kete

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    Bag (English)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    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.

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1917.69
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    1917
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    8612 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
Kete, 1917.69, 8612, Photographed by Jennifer Carol,… … Read more

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