discuss document export feedback print share gallery-landscape xml prestige cloth human history Tukua Tirohanga API Ingoa KēkpokpoKupu whakaahuaWest African prestige cloth, acquired in Sierra Leone. Cotton. Loom woven with hand-spun yarn. Strip-weave technique, nine strips approximately 19cm wide of alternating cream and black blocks of colour. Black block of colour has three white stripes running across at center and two lines of red at edges parallel edges. White block of colour has two paired bands of beige. The third and seventh strips have two decorative elements added into one white block; this element is repeated in one central white block of the central fifth strip. Strips are sewn together with white thread.WāhiSierra LeoneAccession Number2015.35.3Rā Tāpiringa12 May 2015Tohu Tuakiri Kē56754 (ethnology)WāhangaWorld Uiuitia Tāpirihia ki Taku Kete Tirohia ngā pikitia Mātātuhi me ngā tuhinga Mātātuhi Mātātuhi Taonga Taonga Rārangi MihiCollection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 56754, 2015.35.3Kaiwaihanga Matua unknown (Maker)WāhiSierra LeoneRā20th CenturyPāohocotton (textile)Raraunga Ine2140mm1780mmTaumata whakarōpūClothTextileworking T&ETools & EquipmentWhakahounga o Mua26 Oct 2023 Tūemi e whai hononga Ngā hua o DigitalNZ Tapa cloth: Aduvahe Nioge-gem Sihoti'e taliobame'e (Chief's prestige cloth (the first appliqued mud-dyed barkcloth design) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Mea e whai hononga ai E hangaia tonutia ana te kohinga tuihono a Tāmaki Paenga Hira; tāpirihia ai ngā whakahoutanga me ngā pūkete i ia wiki. I ētahi wā, kāore anō kia whakaūhia ngā pūkete e ngā kaimahi o Te Whare Taonga, tēnā pea he hapa kei roto i ngā kōrero. The gift of curiosity With unlimited free entry to all paid exhibitions, discounted event tickets and exclusive Member-only events, a Museum Membership is the gift that keeps on giving year-round. SEE OPTIONS FROM $60