Curved Ear Ornament (Kapeu)

Unknown Artist

18th–early 19th century

Curved Ear Ornament (Kapeu) by Unknown Artist

Medium

Greenstone (nephrite)

Dimensions

H. 4 7/8 × W. 1 1/16 × D. 1/4 in. (12.4 × 2.7 × 0.6 cm)

Classification

Stone-Ornaments

Culture

Maori people

Department

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Lenore M. Weber Gift, 2013

Accession Number

2013.24

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