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Tiki

Tiki is a Maori neck pendant in the form of a human figure. The hands have three fingers and the legs are usually bent under the body. The Maori preferred to use greenstone (jade) for tikis and called these pendants heitiki. Most of the figures are female, in spite of a connection between the pendant and the mythological figure, also called Tiki, who was believed to be the first man. More »

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