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kuru

human history
  • Common Name
    body adornments / ornaments
  • Other Name

    greenstone pendant (descriptive name)

  • Description

    A needle shaped pendant mid green in colour with a black/brown streak down the middle on one side. The reverse side has some light brown and whitish fish scale effect. This pendant is oval in cross section; it tapers to a point at the distal end, and the proximal edge is broken across the top so that only half the suspension hole remains.

  • Accession Number
    1932.455
  • Accession Date
    10 Aug 1932
  • Other Id

    18626.1 (ethnology)

    2549 (Taonga Database)

  • Department

    Māori

Kuru, 18626.1

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  • Last Update
    31 Mar 2023
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