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Kuru

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

    greenstone pendant (descriptive name)

  • Description

    This pendant is of mid green translucent stone with whitish cloud effect throughout. With straight sides and rounded at both ends, it has a countersunk hole and is oval in cross section.

  • Accession Number
    1935.228
  • Accession Date
    07 Jul 1935
  • Other Id

    21994 (ethnology)

    147/32 (accession number)

    17365 (ethnology)

    2579 (Taonga Database)

  • Department

    Māori

Kuru, 21994

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  • Kuru, 21994
  • Kuru, 21994
  • Kuru, 21994

Artefact

  • Last Update
    31 Mar 2023
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