Wooden tiki

Made:: 1871-1925 in New Zealand

Wooden tiki, with shell eyes, Maori, New Zealand
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Wooden tiki, with shell eyes, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 1st quarter of 20th centuries

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A36679

Materials:: wood and shell

Measurements:: height 102 mm
width 55 mm
depth 10 mm

type:: lei-tiki

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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Wooden tiki

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