club
- Museum number
- Oc1854,1229.4
- Description
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Nephrite club, mere pounamu : mottled medium to light green, slight shoulders, plain butt with old large off-centre hole through it.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.50 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Starzecka, Neich & Pendergrast 2010
Register: ‘… belonged to Te Ruinga-ote-Rangi [Te Huinga o Te Rangi] a chief of Ngati Pava [Ngati Paoa].’
Comments: Eighteenth century; South Island (DRS).
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See Christy Correspondence (File 'G'):
Undated, unsigned, list of six 'jade battle-axes'. This item, identified by D Starzecka, is described as 'The jade battle-axe of Te-Ruinga-o-Te-Rangi, a chief of the Ngati-Pava tribe.'
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British Museum registration slip:
'Presented by George Grey. KCB 1854
New Zealand
Hand club (mere pounamu) of Jade, spatulate blade, grip rounded at end & perforated in a sloping direction
[Drawing]
Formerly the property of TE-RUINGA-O-TE-RANGI a chief of the NGATI PAVA TRIBE
L16" '
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1998 27 Jun-1 Nov, London, BM, Maori
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1854,1229.4