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Description: | Wooden taiaha, lacking vegetable fibre or feather tassels. Old label. 'spontoon or spear carried by the chiefs of New Zealand curiously carved and ornamented with eyes formed of the beautiful pearl of the iris shell.' An unfinished artefact, there is no surface decoration on the tongue, the head has circular shell eye on one side only and the blade end is unfinished.
Material: wood
Material: shell | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63506 | Go to resource |
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