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2. Jewellery in the Pacific - Wikipedia

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   Throughout the Pacific, some jewellery pieces are more common than others. For example, necklaces, earrings and headdresses of different sorts are all very common items used by Polynesians to adorn themselves. Some pieces, such as the wearing of masks, are only apparent in certain areas, such as Micronesia and with the aborigines of Australia.

3. Pounamu - Wikipedia

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   She is wearing a pounamu hei-tiki around her neck, and one pounamu earring and one shark tooth earring Ear pendant ( pekapeka ), Māori people, pounamu and red sealing wax Kataore , a mere pounamu (42 cm × 12 cm, 16.5 in × 4.7 in) named after a Ngāi Tahu chief killed by Te Rauparaha in the 1830s.

4. Hei-tiki - Wikipedia

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   maori.info Further information about hei-tiki, with pictures; Hei-tiki in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Auckland War Memorial Museum hei-tiki collections; Curator Tharron Bloomfield discusses some of the hei-tiki in Auckland War Memorial Museum's collection; 19th Century greenstone hei-tiki from museum collections

5. Wairau Bar - Wikipedia

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   Buried with the skeletons were moa bone reel necklaces, whole moa eggs (used as water carriers), argillite adze heads, carved serpentine that looked like shark and whale teeth, harpoon heads and tattoo chisels. Few nephrite (jade or greenstone) artefacts were found. It is believed the site was primarily a factory for making stone adze heads.

6. Shell jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Shell jewelry is jewelry that is primarily made from seashells, the shells of marine mollusks. Shell jewelry is a type of shellcraft . One very common form of shell jewelry is necklaces that are composed of large numbers of beads , where each individual bead is the whole (but often drilled) shell of a small sea snail .

7. Māori culture - Wikipedia

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   A hei-tiki around her neck, pounamu earring and shark tooth earring, and two huia feathers in her hair. Māori artifacts began to change around the 15th century from an East Polynesian style to one more recognisably "classic" Māori, [ 24 ] a style which persisted well into the contact period in the 18th and 19th centuries.