Pendant, D27.257

Paraoa/Whale bone Elongated fish hook shape, superb specimen [sic]. Shank curved, bend round, point leg straight with one internal barb near tip of point and one external barb at base of point leg. Point leg equal in length to shank. Suspendory device - platform projection at external top with 3 grooves around projection shank oval in cross section

Catalogue card:
Whale bone Elongated fish hook shape, superb specimen [sic]. Shank curved, bend round, point leg straight with one internal barb near tip of point and one external barb at base of point leg. Point leg equal in length to shank. Suspendory device - platform projection at external top with 3 grooves around
projection shank oval in cross section
Ref "Comp Spkg" p73 (4.109)
found with D27.256 in burial at Papanui Inlet according to Skinner (ibid)
Register does not record this [Later entry: Hamilton in "Maori Art" records that it was found with a burial at Papanui Inlet p414.]
On display M pendants - hei matau
Later entry:
"Te Maori" fig 167 pl.59
"Coming of the Maori" fig 62 b.
"Maori Art" Hamilton pl. 56 fig 3
Later entry:
Display - Gallery Stage I 12/88

Locality: found with burial Papanui Inlet