VALUABLE RELIC
MAORI PENDANT FOR MUSEUM ANCIENT HEIRLOOM Negotiations for the lodging in the War Memorial Museum of a valuable Maori pendant have been completed by the representatives of the Auckland Institute and Museum. The pendant is of the riukahurangi type of tangiwai stone, which is slightly different from greenstone. Tangiwai is flaky and has a transparent appearence foreign to the dull green of pounamu (greenstone). There is history attached to the pendant. It was an heirloom of the Mauparoa family, whose chief Mauparoa, was a leader of a Ngati-Kahungunu sub-tribe living in the vicinity of the East Cape. Early last century Mauparoa became an intimate comrade of Pomare, a lieutenant of the Ngapuhi chieftain, Hongi Hika. These three made frequent raids in the W-iikato, Thames and Rotorua districts and Mauparoa eventually married a Ngapuhi woman. Years later, when his sou, Honi Hana, visited Mauparoas people it the East Coast, he was presented with the pendant, an heirloom of the family.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 872, 16 January 1930, Page 9
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161VALUABLE RELIC Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 872, 16 January 1930, Page 9
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