Pandanus mat with fringe and small red feather trim. [HR 16/9/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pandanus mat with fringe and small red feather trim. [HR 16/9/2015]
Long description: Pandanus fibre plain-woven mat with fringing at opposite ends, one end with applied feather and pandanus ribbon decoration. Further interwoven surface decoration of zig zag in another orange-brown fibre (as well as a small area in red). Originally housed in a glazed wooden frame. [HR 16/9/2015]
Geographical reference: Samoa
Oceania > Polynesia > Samoa; Tonga
Oceania > Polynesia > Tonga
Person: Field collector Arthur William Mahaffy; PRM source William Edward Harcourt, Viscount Harcourt
Date / Period: Date made: Circa by 1864
Date collected: Between 1896 and 1914
Acquisition information: Purchased: 02/12/1948
Materials and processes: Material Pandanus Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Material Bird Feather, Material Glass, Material Wood Plant, Material Paper Plant, Material Abrus Precatorius Seed Plant, Process Woven, Process Basketry, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Width: max 2190 mm, Length: max 2503 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1948.12.2B
Research and responses: Arthur William Mahaffy (1869-1919) was a colonial officer who served in the Pacific from 1896 to 1914 (see Biographies database). [JC 15 7 2005]

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