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other way would be treasured and adapted, no matter what its shape might be.
Figure 13
But many of the Maori ornaments were of far more elaborate character. The most important of the ear-ornaments was
Figure 14.
the pekapeka (Figure 14), or bat, so called from its fancied resemblance to that animal. It was worked, with the figures rounded