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food cover

human history
  • Kupu whakaahua

    Food covers, set of six

    Made from palm leaf, cotton thread, reed, and foil. Bowl shaped bodies. Each food cover is a graduating size and can sit inside of each other. The bowls are identical in design. The base is a red coloured palm leaf with hand tacked designs of flowers over laying each other getting smaller, base flower is red, then purple, green, red, white, purple, yellow, and a small red dot at the centre. The rim of the food cover is a silver foil that has been sewn on with thin brown cane. The underside is naturally coloured palm leaf with visible cotton sewing

  • Wāhi
  • Accession Number
    1990.40
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    12 Feb 1990
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    53421 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
food covers, 1990.40, 53421, Cultural Permissions Apply

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