M0012660: M?ori hei-tiki, New Zealand

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Photograph of three M?ori hei-tiki made of pounamu or greenstone from New Zealand, shown as on display with captions in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. These items were accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R6080/1936, 10192/1936, R773/1939) but are not held by Wellcome Collection. The photograph was included in the catalogue for a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commonwealth, London, 1952.

M0012660: M?ori hei-tiki, New Zealand

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