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Breast jewellery
Hei tiki (human-shaped pendants) are among the most precious objects of value (taonga) handed down by Māori. The pendants are mostly made of pounamu (nephrite or greenstone), the eyes inlaid with the shell of the pāua snail (Haliotis spec.). As far as gender is represented at all, historical hei tiki are mostly female figures. The significance of the hei tiki remains unclear, but they are still important heirlooms passed down through generations, keeping alive the memory of their previous owners. Text: Ulrich Menter
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- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Māori
- Object type
- Breast jewellery
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.3 cm
Width: 5 cm
Depth: 1.1 cm - Material/Technique
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Nephrite, Haliotis
carved, sawn, drilled
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 122183
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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late 18th/early 19th century
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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New Zealand
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Change of physical control
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when
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1961
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- Provenance
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The object
entered the collection of the Linden Museum in 1961 through an object
exchange with Arthur Speyer. The history preceding the arrival of the
object is unknown. Text: Ulrich Menter
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- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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