Maori
Breast Pendant (Hei Tiki)
Maori, 1800-1899
Scroll
Maori
Breast Pendant (Hei Tiki)
Maori, 1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Paua shell, H. 4 in. (10.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.178
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 38-39. ills. 178.
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.
Neich, Roger, and Pandora Fulimalo Pereira. Pacific jewelry and adornment. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
