Hei-Tiki - Anthony Brey-Heta
$2,000.00
Hei-Tiki by Anthony Brey-Heta
Contemporary New Zealand Māori carving on vintage walrus tusk
Polished walrus tusk with pāua shell inlay
“Hei-Tiki are stylised humanistic forms normally made of pounamu to be worn around the neck (the word hei denotes neck). Hei-Tiki are easily recognisable but not well understood. A variety of meanings for Hei-Tiki have been put forward by scholars - an embryo, fertility symbols, a representation of ‘first man’. An even more extraordinary (and incorrect) theory purports Tiki are derived from Buddha”
141 grammes
12cm long
Available for purchase in Australia only