ID: 700001769 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001769	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Pätua (bark basket) (basket (container); Unknown ; 1850; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; registration number: ME000794)

Note: This is a pātua (bark basket) made from the bark of the tōtara tree (Podocarpus totara). Used as presentation vessels for food, pātua weremade by steaming large pieces of tōtara bark to make them pliable, then crafting them into this basket form. Sometimes pātua were adorned with the feathers of birds to be served in the basket. This particular pātua was collected by Reverend Taylor and features hawk feathers on the handles.

Titles:

Pätua (bark basket) (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

basket (container) [300194498] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>)

Classifications:

basketry (preferred)

Creation Date: 1850

Creator Display:

Unknown [preferred,VP]

maker unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: registration number: ME000794

Credit Line: Acquisition history unknown

Display Materials: tötara (wood), feathers, bark

	Podocarpus totara (species) [300379289]
	.......(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Coniferophyta (division), Pinopsida (class), Pinales (order), Podocarpaceae (family), Podocarpus (genus))

	feather (material) [300011809]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, keratinous material)

	bark (plant material) [300011860]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material)

	preserving [300266154]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>)

	forming (physical activity) [300053098]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>)

Dimensions: Overall: 380 (Width) x 295 (Height) x 495 (Length) mm

General Subject:

ceremonial objects (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Pätua (bark basket)	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=131014; accessed 17 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 17 August 2012

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 17 August 2012