- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Nephrite tiki of adze form, perforated for suspension.
- Long description
- Description taken from Conservation Card by Robert Pearce - Nephrite tiki of adze form, perforated for suspension. Humanoid figure carved from green stone. Hole at top towards back (probably to allow object to be suspended). (Robert Pearce 31/01/00) [LKG 29/01/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Māori
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1874
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Nephrite Stone, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Recycled
- Dimensions
- Length: max 155 mm, Width 69 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.77.8
- Research and responses
Possibly carved from a recycled adze blade. [MdeA]
- Associated publications
- Illustrated as fig. 11 (with 1884.77.5 and 1940.10.1) on page 16 of Transformations: The Art of Recycling, by Jeremy Coote, Chris Morton, and Julia Nicholson (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2000). (LP 21/6/2000) Illustrated in colour as Figure 28.3 on page 560 of 'New Zealand', by Yvonne Marshall, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 554-563. Caption (same page): 'Figure 28.3 Six nephrite tikis (PRM Accession Number 1884.77.6, 1884.77.8, 1924.66.2, 1926.75.1 and 1940.10.01-02).'. [MJD 04/07/2014]
Search terms: Ornament, Religion, Tool, Neck Ornament, Pendant, Adze