the feathers of the bird - also known as te manu huna a Tāne or the hidden bird of the god of forest Tāne - were highly sought after for prestigious cloaks (kahu kiwi). Some of the other ...

A rectangular cloak (kahu kiwi) made from New Zealand Flax fibre with a decorative twined border (taniko) on three sides and decorative twining along the neck edge. The rest of the outside of the ...

A young woman wearing a kiwi feather cloak (kahu kiwi) with a taniko boarder. Photographed by James Ingram McDonald in 1921 at Koroniti Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). This item is ...

Two family portraits of men and women dressed in kahu huruhuru (including kahu kiwi) and korowai, with some of the subjects holding mere - Iraia Te Whaiti's niece, Tamairangi, dressed in a kahu kiwi ...

In recent years, molted feathers have been sent back to New Zealand for weavers making Kahu kiwi cloaks. "It's really cool to see a culture that still incorporates the entire rest of the world ...

Negative (black and white); a Tūhoe woman sitting on a mat, one which she has herself woven, on the ground outdoors; she is weaving a kahu kiwi (kiwi feather cloak) on a turuturu (loom); she wears a ...

Cultural historian Richard Wolfe explores the trajectory of the kiwi bird becoming one of New Zealand's national symbols and ...