Te ainoko

Description:

Te ainoko. Covered basket. This is a lided basket. It is rectangular in form. It is made of four material components: te ira (pandanus leaf), te kora (coconut sennit cordage), te noko (coconut midrib) and te bura (monetaria annulus; cowrie shell) with the additional use of an off-white string. Te noko makes up the structural walls that provide the rectangular form of te nokonoko. Strips of te ira has been woven across the noko to create covera...

Display date:

Made: Circa 1940; Acquired: Circa 2005

Location:

Pacific

Collections:

Auckland Museum Collections Online

Content partner:

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira

Availability:

Not specified