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Extremely Rare Whale Tooth Rei Puta, considered to be one of…
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Extremely Rare Whale Tooth Rei Puta, considered to be one of the rarest forms of Maori adornment the Rei Puta was a chiefly signifier worn by the ancestors of the Moa Hunter's of Aotearoa. With its strong crocodilian reference the Rei Puta style can be traced back to eastern Polynesia and the first wave of ancient adventurers that landed in Aotearoa during the turn of the last millennium. In 1769 Captain Cooks official artist Sydney Parkinson depicted a chief's son named Te Kuukuu from the Bay of Islands wearing such a pendant. He also wears a Heru (refer example Lot 69) of whalebone, an ear pendant (refe, Length 9.3 cm Width 3.9 cm D1.2 cm
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