An ornamental adornment resembling the small native bat which it is named after.
Pekapeka (Whakakai)
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Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Examples of Maori Carving. 1880s?]
Reference: A-080-039/040
Description: Shows a wooden funnel for feeding a chief, pendants, pekapeka, bone barbs and weapons; patu tuna, patuki, torowai and taiaha Inscriptions: Recto - G. Robley Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 122 x 168 mm to 108 x 134 mm Provenance: Donne/Fuller collection
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Governor General, Sir Paul Reeves, and Lady Reeves - Photographs taken by Stuart Ramson
Date: 29 Nov 1985
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
By: Ramson, Stuart, active 1985
Reference: EP/1985/5202A-F
Description: Governor General, Sir Paul Reeves, and Lady Reeves, 29 November 1985, before a reception for the diplomatic corps at Government House in Wellington. Lady Reeves wears a pale grey printed silk dress made for her by Auckland designer Colin Cole. Around her neck she wears a greenstone pekapeka which was a gift from the diocese of Waiapu. Photographs taken by Evening Post staff photographer Stuart Ramson. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) negative strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :[Maori artifacts] / H. G. R. - [1860s or later]
Date: 1860 - 1869
Reference: A-080-041/043
Description: Shows objects such as chisels, pendants, pekapeka and bone barbs. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [A-080-042 signed] H. G. R. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings 43 x 60 mm to 200 x 149 mm Provenance: Purchased from K. A. Webster collection, London, 1970.
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Portrait of Karaitiana Te Ahu McMillan
Date: [ca 1910-1925]
From: Wheeler, Polly, active 2016-2017: Framed photographs relating to the McMillan family of Kōputaroa
Reference: PA9-133
Description: Framed portrait of Karaitiana Te Ahu McMillan, painting on a photographic base, circa 1910 to 1925. She wears a korowai and a huia feather in her hair as well as greenstone taonga including a hei tiki and a pekapeka around her neck. Her moko kauwae is prominent. Photographer and painter unidentified. See PA9-127 for a photograph where an unidentified Māori woman appears to be wearing the same hei tiki. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) hand-coloured. Physical Description: Painted photographic print in wooden frame with gold-painted detailing, 80 x 96 cm.