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Kapeu (ear ornament)
18th–early 19th century
- Medium
- Nephrite jade (pounamu)
- Classification
- Stone-Ornaments
- Dimensions
- H. 4 7/8 × W. 1 1/16 × D. 1/4 in. (12.4 × 2.7 × 0.6 cm)
- Culture
- Maori people
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Lenore M. Weber Gift, 2013
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
