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‖ hei-tiki N.Z.|heɪˈtɪkɪ|
[Maori, f. hei to hang + tiki the first created being.]
A greenstone neck-ornament worn by Maoris.
1835W. Yate Acc. N.Z. (ed. 2) 151 The hei-tiki being taken off the neck, laid down..and then wept and sung over. 1843E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iv. 55 Around the neck both sexes generally wear a figure cut out of jade. This they call E' Tiki: it has an enormous head, very large eyes, and monstrous and disproportionate arms and legs. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 540/1 The hideous breast ornament termed hei tiki. 1887Col. & Indian Exhib., Rep. Col. Sect. 74 Heitikis or native deities. 1936‘R. Hyde’ Check to your King 153 Queer little amulets, some of which, the hei-tikis, were in the shape of the human embryo. 1949P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) ii. xii. 295 The term tiki was applied to the carved human figures set up at the gable end of important houses. When the ornaments in human form were made, they were also termed tiki but, to distinguish them from the larger wooden tiki, the nephrite ornaments were termed hei tiki, hei meaning to tie around the neck. |