Loan (Exhibition)
Polynésie, June 2008-Sept 2008
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
There are two catalogue cards related to this Taonga.

Catalogue card 1 for 1909.16, handwritten in black ink, notes, 'Neck pendant. (4".2x3".8)'. Later annotation (undated) in black point pen reads, '(hei matau) of unusual size, carved in mottled jade with expanding ends / the outer edge being serrated, hook shaped. Ancient form.' And another annotation in a different hand 'See Z 6473'.
Catalogue card 2 for Z 6473, in typescript, reads, notes 'Jade hook neck pendant, n.n. HEI MATARE [this word crossed out; undated] MATAU with serrated edges.' Red typescript reads 'Lent to Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1935'.

Both cards bear a red round sticker.
Event Date
Author: maa

Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Loan (Exhibition)
Exhibition \'Pacific Divinities: Gods, Chiefs and Priests in Polynesia 1760-1850\', March 2006-May 2006.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Hei matau. Neck pendant. Carved in mottled jade with expanding ends the outer edge being serrated, hook shaped.
Event Date 1909
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Related Documents)
The 25th annual report (1910) reads, '426. A hook-shaped neck pendant (hei matau): an unusually large old example, carved in mottled jade, with expanding ends and a serrated outer edge (4".2 x 3".8)'.
Event Date 2/6/1910
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Art of Primitive Peoples', Burlington Fine Arts Club, in 1935.
Event Date 1935
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
David Roy Simmons of Auckland Museum notes, 'Hei matau. C18. North Is?.'
Event Date 1/6/1978
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Display)
On display in the Maori cube case, Maudslay Hall, from 1990 till May 2012.
Event Date 1990
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Amendments / updates)
Amiria Salmond notes, 'David Simmons views on the provenance and dating of Maori artefacts are no longer considered reliable in New Zealand.'
Event Date 1/6/2001
Author: Rachel Hand

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3996 | Remedial
Event Date 29/11/2017
Author: Kirstie Williams