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Description: Maori neck ornament (rei puta), the pendant made from the tooth of a sperm whale (Physeter catodon) with two engraved blackened eyes on the tooth. A finely plaited flax cord and bird bone toggle attachment serves for hanging around the wearer's neck. Material: whale tooth Material: bone Material: vegetable fibre Material: colouring Source: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Identifier: emu.ecatalogue.ethnography.63848 Go to resource More Like this...
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