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Breast Pendant (Hei Tiki)

Maori, 1800-1899

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Maori

Breast Pendant (Hei Tiki)

Maori, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Nephrite, H. 4 in. (10.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number 1955.251.177
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art". Baltimore Museum of Art. 1956 pg 38. ills. 177.
Sunday Sun. Brown Section. January 8th 1956. pg 14.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. "Museum perceptions and productions: American migrations of a Maori hei-tiki." Endeavour 40, no. 1 (2016): 7-23.

Neich, Roger, and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira. Pacific jewelry and adornment. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

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