A feather from a kiwi used in making or decorating items of Maori ceremonial dress.
they still treasure cloaks made with kiwi feathers
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Moments earlier he was presented with a traditional, ceremonial coat (a korowai), made of flax and kiwi feathers, while others did a fearsome haka dance wearing traditional Maori dress.
An early 19th century Maori costume, a Black Tag mantle whose kiwi feather and parrot breast red feather border indicates it was worn by a person of rank, has a price tag of £3,200.
The Times says a 17th century tapestry, the Onslow's library, a collection of porcelain birds, paintings of the stately home's founders and a cloak of kiwi feathers are believed lost, as is a football which was kicked across no man's land at the start of the Battle of the Somme.
A korowai cloak made with kiwi feathers was draped around the shoulders of the 27 -year-old when he arrived at the Supreme Court building covered in an intricate bronze screen depicting native trees.
Both of them are made of kiwi feathers.
The mottled, round star cloud just to the north is a perfect match for the dense but fine coat of Kiwi feathers.
Its feathers are valued in weaving kahukiwi (kiwi feather cloak) for people of high rank.
During this epic tour, the Queen acquired a rather tired-looking Maori cloak of brown kiwi feathers, a symbol of chieftainship which she still wears when in New Zealand, and several fabulous diamond brooches emblematic of the host countries.
Others wear stately-looking head-chaplets of brown kiwi feathers.
The flag of the Anglican Communion along with Sir Paul's korowai (kiwi feather cloak) will be draped across Sir Paul's headstone.