Te Kohinga Taoka Māori
Collection Record
Pendant, He Kura
Complete pounamu pendant. Mid-green, mid-blue, and black in colour with low transparency. Inanga variety, Westland source. Adze-shaped, with a broken and reworked proximal end. Proximal edge is rounded and reduced with shoulders. Complete suspension hole drilled from both sides, as well as a drill mark on one side indicating another incomplete suspension hole. One side edge has a small sawing mark and serrations running along the lower end, possibly an indicator of the number of generations of use. Distal end is oblique and sharp.
Provenance Place:
Unlocalised, New Zealand
D76.1190
Details
- Provenance Place
- Unlocalised, New Zealand
- Cultural Group
- Unlocalised, Māori, Polynesian, Pacific
- Measurements
- 72 x 42 x 5mm
- Rights
- All rights reserved
- Department
- Taoka Maori
- Accession Number
- D76.1190
- On Display
- No
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