Cloak

Title: Cloak

Date: 19th century

Geography: New Zealand

Culture: Maori people, Kaitaka

Medium: New Zealand Flax (phormium tenax species), wool

Dimensions: H. 63 x W. 74 in. (160 x 188 cm)

Classification: Textiles-Woven

Credit Line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Gabites, 1965

Accession Number: 1978.412.873

O.P. Gabites, New York and New Zealand, until 1965; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1965–1978

Hudson River Museum. "Art of the South Pacific," March 9, 1974–April 28, 1974.

Arts of the South Pacific. Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, March 10–April 28, 1974, no. 180.

Mead, Hirini (Sidney) Moko, ed. Te Maori: Maori Art from New Zealand Collections. New York, 1985.

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