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Māori cloak from Cook collection
Collected on one of James Cook voyages, possibly first voyage; location not established
A cloak and an uncertain place of collection
The catalogue associates this Māori cloak with material collected during a voyage of James Cook, possibly the first voyage. The particular place where the cloak was acquired has not been established in the surviving note.
The distinction matters: an object collected on a voyage around Aotearoa cannot be assigned to Kāpiti without additional evidence. The object may still illuminate the history of Māori material culture and later museum collecting, but its local relevance remains an open research question.
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