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POUNAMU.
other way would be treasured and adapted, no matter what its shape might be.
![Collection of carved greenstone pendants of different shapes](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Pounamu-Robley-p044-fig13.jpg/440px-Pounamu-Robley-p044-fig13.jpg)
Figure 13
But many of the Maori ornaments were of far more elaborate character. The most important of the ear-ornaments was
![Two carved greenstone pekapeka or bats](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Pounamu-Robley-p044-fig14.jpg/440px-Pounamu-Robley-p044-fig14.jpg)
Figure 14.
the pekapeka (Figure 14), or bat, so called from its fancied resemblance to that animal. It was worked, with the figures rounded