prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1319

PRM000011504Ear ornament, kuru, of nephrite, from New Zealand; part of the Forster collection (Forster 122; 1886.1.1319)

Ear ornament made of nephrite. Originally one end was drilled with a hole, which has broken. The end of the pendant has then been bound with New Zealand flax fibre to form a new suspension point

 

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