Te Kohinga Taoka Māori

Collection Record

Pendant, Adze, Toki

Pounamu pendant. Dark green kawakawa variety with black inclusions. High transparency with some feather fractures. Surface is ground smooth but with some bruising on back side. Adze shaped with sawing marks on distal end and proper left side edge. Distal edge is unfinished after having been broken from original source. Bevel on each side. Tapers to the proximal end with an oblique edge and an off-centre suspension hole, drilled from both sides.

Production Primary Date:
Mid

Provenance Place:
Long Beach, Otago, New Zealand, Westland, West Coast, New Zealand

D28.547

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