A Maori walking stick New Zealand wood and haliotis shell

A Maori walking stick

New Zealand

wood and haliotis shell, the stem with four tiki figures and one to the top, the curved handle with a tiki terminal,

89.5cm long.

Provenance

Presented to Joseph Manning in 1898 as recognition for his saving of a Maori boy from drowning in the waters of Lake Rotoiti in the North Island of New Zealand and thence by decent.