- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Flax skirt with band of dyed flax forming flat belt
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Māori
- Person
- Field collector Miss J.M. Lennox
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1936
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Flax (NZ) Plant, Material Pigment, Process Dyed, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Height: max 730 mm, Width: max 640 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.1215.1 Other numbers: 1936.345
- Research and responses
For full text of Accession Book introduction (from Collections XVA Ipswich Ethnography A) see entry for 1966.1.1. [OD 11/6/2001].
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