Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1949.149Description: Composite wood and bone fish hook.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriCommon name: Taonga Database keywords and subcategoriesContributor: maker, unknownID: 809Description: Figure, small carved, tattoo on left buttock, three fingered hands on side at waist

03 Mar 1970

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriDate: 03 Mar 1970ID: 3468Description: Remnant of a wooden heru, comb.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 495Description: A kete whakairo, flax kit, illustrating the whakapuareare pattern. The whakapapa (commencement sequence) of this kete whakairo is laid out in dextrals and sinistrals of undyed…

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1975.183Description: The stone has been sandblasted. It is translucent in colour - shading from green into browns. It has a hole through the end. The edge is slightly chipped.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1920.90Description: This matakahi, wooden wedge, has a worn uneven surface. The knobbed end is slightly squared.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 17266Description: Semi-circular in shape, it has been partially carved. It is mid green in colour.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 17376Description: This pekapeka, greenstone neck ornament, is light green in colour and is very worn and polished. Of pale green with some lighter shade splotches throughout.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1925.45Description: Two fish hook barbs.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1481Description: This stone sinker is almost round in shape andn has a carved figure on the top of the projecting lug. The surface is bruised and worn.

05 Feb 1996

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriDate: 05 Feb 1996ID: 55222Description: A kete whakairo woven by Rangi Kiu. Two very large square spiral motifs decorate each side, along with a single small white feather. The rim is finished off with a double…

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1226Description: The waka huia is carved entirely with rauponga and unaunahi designs. There is a carved head at each end, serving as a handle. Two projecting heads feature on the lid, joined…

1897

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriDate: 1897ID: 1938.151Description: Koruru, carved wooden figure place below the tekoteko on the gable of a house, with protruding tongue, teeth in mouth carved all over. painted red.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 17055Description: This heru is made from whale bone. It has four prongs which are round in section and all broken except one. The distal end is flat and there is no visible surface carving. The…

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1982.252Description: hei tiki; Peria/Kaikohe/Kaitaia; pounamu; tiny translucent light green nephrite; head tilts to right; cratered suspension hole above left eye; left hand on thigh; right arm…

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 1585Description: A bone fish hook shank.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 55146Description: Kaka poria, ring for the leg of a tame kaka. Made from translucent bowenite, this kaka poria has four lugs with one pierced for the cord. There is a fragment missing from the…

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 18623.2Description: A piece of worked bone for a fish hook.

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 55138Description: Kuru, greenstone pendant, medium to dark green pounamu. Both ends are rounded, with a cratered suspension hole in the proximal end. The surface is worn and has a vertical…

Type: Object / Artefact › MaoriID: 105Description: This hoeroa, long weapon, is uncarved apart from the design at the butt through which two cratered perforations have been made. The surface of the hoeroa is worn and…