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Skirt3425/3 a-b

Skirt or piupiu composed of strands of alternating scraped and not scraped flax leaves forming a horizontal striped pattern where the not scraped leaves are a light yellow colour, and the scraped segments are a dark brown colour. Spelled out using dark sections is "AOTEAROA". The leaves hang from a woven waistband made of grey-blue and orange braided fibre with long ties on each end, also braided. The initials B.T. are stitched onto the waistband in white. The piupiu storage bag (part b) is tube shaped with both ends open and able to be cinched. The top has lining tape creating a pocket, through which a grey and red-brown plaited fibre cord is drawn through. The other end has an elastic strap threaded through and tied off.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre, fibre and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag3425/8

Rectangular woven flax bag with geometric designs in brown and natural colour. Weaving has alternating vertical bands of colour, and double twisted sections with an X-like appearance. Around the sides and bottom edge are thick layers of fringe, alternating between sections of brown or natural. The top has two thin twisted handles with tassels.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3367/1

Skirt composed of hanging strands of flax stalks from a woven fibre waistband. The stalks have a pattern alternating between beaten and unbeaten portions, forming a horizontal striped pattern where the unbeaten stalks are a light yellow colour, and the beaten segments are a burnt, dark brown colour. The woven waistband features diamond and triangle designs in light and dark brown. The stalks hang from a woven waistband made of braided plant fibre.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and plant fibre
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3102/1

Skirt composed of strands of alternating beaten and unbeaten flax stalks forming a horizontal striped pattern where the unbeaten stalks are a light yellow colour, and the beaten segments are a dark brown colour. The stalks hang from a woven waistband made of dark brown braided fibre with long ties on each end, also braided.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre, fibre and dye
Made in
Wellington, North Island, New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt3026/1

Skirt composed of strands of alternating beaten and unbeaten flax stalks forming a horizontal striped pattern where the unbeaten stalks are a light yellow colour, and the beaten segments are a dark brown colour. The stalks hang from a woven waistband made of dark brown braided fibre with long ties on each end, also braided.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre, fibre and dye
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cape3011/1

Shoulder cape. Long and narrow with a woven flax band at top that holds four long braided and twisted ties at the upper corners. Long braids of flax are attached to the band and fall down in front of the cape’s open weave middle section, mixing with a thick row of hanging flax stalks at bottom. The stalks are the unprocessed ends of the woven fibre making up the rest of the cape, and create sound when moved. The top half of cape is decorated and reinforced with horizontal stripes of finely woven fibre, dyed brown.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtC966

The skirt is brown with nine rows of light coloured flax strips. The strips are unraveled into brown fibres at both ends. The top end is woven into the brown cloth of the skirt. The bottom end is short and becomes a fringe on the bottom of each row of strips. There is a thick braided fibre band across the top of the skirt.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and fibre
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cape1711/1

Feather trimmed cape. Cape has a natural beige background and is decorated with coloured designs, black yarn and feathers. There are rows of rectangular designs filled with cross-hatching in either red/black or red/yellow. There are many pieces of black yarn sewn down at one end with the other end hanging loose. The sides and bottom of the cape have a grey-brown feather fringe. The top of the cape has a black multi-strand fringe. Each top corner has a red and white twisted fibre with an ornamental red tuft.

Culture
Maori
Material
wild turkey feather, cotton fibre, new zealand pigeon feather and weka feather
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt661/2

Skirt composed of flax fibre dyed dark brown and woven to form a waistband from which emerges a fringe of light yellow flax strips that have been beaten into fibres intermittently and the beaten areas dyed dark brown to form an overall geometric pattern featuring diamond shapes.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre, dye and fibre
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Skirt424/4

Cape composed of flax leaves that have been scraped into fibres, woven together wih a band at the waistband and using regularly spaced single pair twining the top half of the skirt. Each row is overlaid with intermitently scraped leaves, resembling stalks, and the bottom half is comprised mostly of free-moving stalk-like leaves. Several tufts of grey downy feathers are attached intermittently near the waistband.

Culture
Maori
Material
new zealand flax fibre and feather
Made in
New Zealand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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