Figure 9:8. maker unknown, Niue, hiapo, hand-painted tapa cloth, 1800s, 160 x 186 cm, Augustus Hamilton Collection, purchased 1914, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa FE000278.
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Figure 9:2. Hei tiki, nineteenth century, pounamu (nephrite jade with abalone inlay), 15.5 x 7.6 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Hei tiki pendants were often worn in honour and acknowledgement of figures of one’s whakapapa, or ancestral lineage.
Figure 10:13. Michelangelo, Holy Family with St. John the Baptist, c. 1505–1506, tempera grassa (with added oil) on wood, 120 cm diameter, The Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
