Woven bag
Harakeke and kiekie plant fibres are long and strong enough to be dyed and woven into baskets and bags. In Māori legend, harakeke and kiekie were brothers who were separated at the beginning of time but who lived with different guardians; one lived along rivers and streams, the other remained sheltered in the forests.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 175/2000
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Containers
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Material
- flax / kie-kie fibre
- Common Name
- woven bag
- Simple Name
- bag
- Production Country
- New Zealand
- Production Year High
- pre 2000
