Pākē karure (waist or shoulder garment)

A type of garment known as a pakē karure made of black and gold dyed two-ply closed strands of hukahuka (twisted or rolled cord or tag) interspersed with occassional black-dyed two-ply open type karure (loosely twisted) muka thread cord. Garments such as these were worn interchangeably either around the waist as a piupiu, or across the shoulder as a cape.

Garments of this type are thought to pre-date European contact, later becoming a more specialised form during the mid to later nineteenth century, which continues today as the more standardised form of the modern piupiu.