Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed to artefact: 'Transferred from Anatomical Museum.' (Noted by A. Salmond, 21/06/2001)
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Two catalogue cards associated with this Hei tiki.

Catalogue card 1 for 1886.86, handwritten in black ink, reads, 'Charm (tiki)'. Annotated (undated) with blue ball point pen, 'made of 'green stone'.' Another hand 'See Z 6460'.
Catalogue card 2 for Z 6460, in typescript, 'Jade TIKI'. Typed label on reverse: 'Prof. [sic] Macalister, Nov.1889. Bears note: R 11m 86 Transferred from Anatomical Museum. [Female sign]. Type of lug used for suspension suggests South Island provinance [sic]. Colour of nephrite: dark green with a light but uneven fleck. Haliotis eye missing. Condition is excellent apart from the missing eye.'

Card 2 bears a round red sticker on the front. A printed black and white photograph stapled with both cards.
Event Date
Author: maa

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Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Acquisition Details)
The catalogue card refers to this artefact as being both a transfer from the Anatomical Museum, as well as a gift from Professor Mcalister
Event Date 1886
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
The 2nd annual report (1886) reads, '86. A green-stone charm (‘tiki’). New Zealand. Transferred from the Anatomical Museum.'
Event Date 17/11/1886
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed to artefact, 'Geof. Macalister [?] Nov. 1889.' [This appears to be a mis-transcription relating to Prof. Alexander Macalister, the Irish born Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge 1883- 1919 who was prolific collector and donor to the Anatomy Museum. R. Hand 24.4.2020]
Event Date 11/1889
Author: Rachel Hand

Research Visit (Anthropology)
RES.2017.2369 | As part of her Pacific Presences fellowship Associate Prof Brown examined a series of tiki pounamu with a digital microscope with Dr Kat Zsabo in an attempt to determine if they had been re-worked from adzeheads.
Event Date 5/7/2017
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Hei tiki. Pendant of jade or greenstone. Humanoid figure with tilted head. Eyes made of haliotis shell, one missing.
Event Date 30/5/2025
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu