Cloak fastener au rei
Place: New Zealand
Category: Clothing
animal material, plant fibre, New Zealand, l. 13.5 cm, Inv. Oz 300
Humphrey No. 192: ‘a Needle used to fasten their Cloaks with by the Natives of New Zealand, made of wood.’
Cloak fastener, presumably of animal material (quill?), in the form of a curved needle, upper end with hole drilled through, with a twisted cord. Hamilton (1896: 295) mentioned the use of feather quills (tuaka) as sewing needles. Markus Schindlbeck
Sources
Hamilton, Augustus, The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand, Wellington, 1896.