Pākē (rain cape)

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Pākē (rain cape)

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Te Papa Collections Online

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A pākē is a protective cloak that provided the wearer with both physical protection and shelter.Although the cape has rolled strands like those on a piupiu (waist garment), these strands have muka (New Zealand flax fibre) ends that form the whenu (warp threads). The cloak is therefore classified as a pake. Processed like piupiu, each strand appears to have been split four to five times and then rolled together again. The yellow lengths, from unscraped harakeke (New Zealand flax) leaf, have be...

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URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/172039

Related subjects

muka (fibre) / harakeke / pākē / capes / cloaks / twining / Te Huringa I: 1800 - 1900 / New Zealand

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