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20 - Fashion and First Peoples in European Settler Societies, c. 1700–1850

from Part III - Many Worlds of Fashion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums of Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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In a portrait painted by Joseph Merrett in the mid-1840s, an unnamed Māori woman wears a distinctive blend of local and imported garb. This young Indigenous woman from Aotearoa (New Zealand) draped her korawai-ngore, a cloak decorated in red woollen pompoms and black string tags, over a cotton scarlet-and-navy print dress (Figure 20.1). In addition to her kauae moko (female facial tattoo), she wears a greenstone and blue ribbon ornament in one ear, and in the other what is probably a shark’s tooth carved in bone.

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
, pp. 672 - 705
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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