Kahu huruhuru (feather cloak)

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Kahu huruhuru (feather cloak)

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

This kahu huruhuru demonstrates the transition period, when Māori culture underwent large-scale change during the nineteenth century. Its complex design has a central feature of a predominantly orange trapezoid, framed with dark feathers, and bordered in white with double orange bands near the front hemline. The design must have been planned ahead, as weaving commenced at the hemline – unfortunately, however, the ideas behind the weaver’s work are no longer known. While the flashes of contras...

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Date created

1860-1900

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/64948

Related subjects

muka (fibre) / feather / kahu huruhuru / cloaks / twining / whatu aho rua / weaving / New Zealand / Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae / Nestor meridionalis / Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae / Porphyrio melanotus / Cyanoramphus / Ninox novaeseelandiae / Te Huringa I: 1800 - 1900 / Māori

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