ID: 700001743 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001743	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Pirori (cord drill) (pirori; Unknown; undetermined; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; registration number: ME000981)

Note: Awiri or tuwiri (also known as the pirori) was a cord drill that Maori used to create holes in hard materials such as basalt, pounamu (New Zealand greenstone) or bone. The holes were made by applying downward pressure and a twirling motion by pulling cords, creating friction at the drill point to bore through solid material. Making holes in hard materials especially important in the manufacture of pounamu adornments and suspension holes in wrist weapons.

Titles:

Pirori (cord drill) (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

pirori [300379311] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, drilling equipment, drilling tools, drills (tools), <drills by form>)

drill (tool) [300024679]

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, drilling equipment, drilling tools)

Classifications:

tools / implements (preferred)

Creation Date: undetermined

Creator Display:

Unknown [preferred,VP]

craftsman unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Creation: North Island [1008380] New Zealand (nation), Oceania (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: registration number: ME000981

Credit Line: Fischer Collection. Purchased early 1900s

Display Materials: wood, stone, muka

	wood (plant material) [300011914]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)

	stone (worked rock) [300011176]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

	muka (fiber) [300379297]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, fiber, natural fiber, plant fiber)

Dimensions: Overall: 348 (Height) x 170 (Width) mm

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Pirori (cord drill)	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=131778; accessed 17 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 17 August 2012

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 17 August 2012