Description

Big Rei Puta Bone Carving Necklace with wax adjustable cord string.
Material: Natural whale bone

This type of Maori ornament has always been considered very rare. 
I can only recollect seeing one specimen in Maori possession, a splendid one which Te Manihera, 
or Maunsell, an aged man of the Kaipara North Heads, delighted to wear. 
Apparently it was “his sole remaining joy,” for I do not think that he possessed any other memento of former days.