Earring
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Greenstone
Place of origin
New Zealand
Order this imageCollection
Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1442028
Summary
[Destroyed in the fire of 2015] Greenstone Maori ear ornament with gold band. greenstone is a form of jade (nephrite) known by the Maori as Pounamu.
Provenance
Purchased in 1991 with the aid of a grant from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund