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other way would be treasured and adapted, no matter what its shape might be.

Collection of carved greenstone pendants of different shapes

Figure 13

But many of the Maori ornaments were of far more elaborate character. The most important of the ear-ornaments was

Two carved greenstone pekapeka or bats

Figure 14.

the pekapeka (Figure 14), or bat, so called from its fancied resemblance to that animal. It was worked, with the figures rounded