Guide Maggie’s Cloak

Description

Open Edition Reproduction

Beautiful Feather Maori Cloak. This cloak was owned by Makereti Papakura, known as Guide Maggie at the Whakarewarewa geothermal village in Rotorua where in 1901 she escorted the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (Later King George V and Queen Mary). She later went to the UK, married an Englishman Richard Staples-Brown and attended Oxford University where she wrote her thesis on Old Time Maori which was later published as a book.