Maori Greenstone Ear Pendant from Webster Collection
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- Contact Period - As applied to New Zealand Maori artifacts, the artefact dates from the 1790s to the 1840s
This item has been included into following indexes:
- Maori artefacts
- pendants and lockets, set with - greenstone (pounamu, nephrite) 215
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