breast-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc,NZ.159
- Description
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Whale-tooth pendant, rei puta : raised tip with some black pigment in eyes, no nose, flat back with three holes and suspension cord of fine black flax braided into thick round cord; toggle of albatross bone, one end stuffed with reddish clay.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 30.50 centimetres
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Width: 3 centimetres
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Depth: 2.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Illustrated in D.C. Starzecka (ed), Maori: Art and Culture', London, British Museum Press, 1996, p. 20
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Starzecka, Neich and Pendergrast 2010
Provenance: Cook Collection.
Register: ‘See Add. ms 15 508, Plate 21.’
Comments: Eighteenth century.
References: Davidson 1996: 20; Edge- Partington 1969 i: 370.1; Jessop 2003:
107; Joppien and Smith 1985: 1.126, 1.127; Kaeppler 1978: 177; Starzecka 1979: fig. 61.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1979 – 1980 15 Feb-29 Sept, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Captain Cook in the South Seas
1998 27 Jun-1 Nov, BM, Maori
2009-2010 28 Aug-28 Feb, Bonn, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
2010 10 May-13 Sept, Vienna, Museum of Ethnology, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
2010-2011 7 Oct-13 Feb, Bern, Historical Museum, James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
2014 15 Feb-11 May, Lincoln, The Collection: Art and Archaeology, A Great Endeavour – Joseph Banks, A Lincolnshire Gentleman and his Legacy
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1800
- Acquisition notes
- Collected during one of Cook's voyages.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,NZ.159
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc17??D19.159 (old CDMS no.)