NEW ZEALAND MAORI KAHURANGI GREENSTONE POUNAMU JADE KORU HEI TOKI PENDANT

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NEW ZEALAND MAORI KAHURANGI GREENSTONE POUNAMU JADE KORU HEI TOKI PENDANT:
$95.00

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STUNNING LEAF GREEN COLOURS IN THIS FABULOUS ULTRA RARE HIGHLY TRANSLUCENT KAHURANGI JADE - NEW ZEALAND POUNAMU NEPHRITE GREENSTONE JADE - finely carved by master carver EWAN PARKER - finest New Zealand nephrite jade from the South Island of New Zealand shown to maximum advantage in these works of art.

A BEAUTIFULLY CARVED MAORI KORU HEI TOKI PENDANT - THE KORU IS THE SYMBOL OF THE MAORI PEOPLE AND REPRESENTS REGENERATION AND REBIRTH. This one is so perfect with an IMMACULATE GLOSS finish. It measures 1.9\" by 1.05\" with a domed depth of 6mms - beautifully balanced and proportioned - suspended on a black braided adjustable cord. It comes with my authenticity card - guaranteed pounamu jade from New Zealand

The carvings I offer are priced incredibly reasonably for genuine artist carvedNZ POUNAMU which will soon become impossible to obtain. I am a fair trade seller and pay the carvers what they deserve. All my pendants are blessed in the Maori tradition. All my photos are taken outside in natural light - no digital enhancement - no photoshopping - what you see is what you get!

You are welcome at my sales - please read my 100% response and know you are buying ONE OF A KIND CARVINGS BY NATIVE NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS exactly as described and pictured. DON\'TSETTLE FOR VERY INFERIOR TOURIST MASS PRODUCED SOUVENIRS - many of the low priced so called \"Maori\" jade carvings you see on at the moment are not carved in New Zealand and not New Zealand jade.

Pounamu is found only in the South Island. Because of this, the island was originally named Te Wāhi Pounamu (the place of pounamu), but over time this name changed to Te Wai Pounamu (the greenstone waters). No other jade should be classified as pounamu as it is a Maori name for the stone.

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Māori valued pounamu in the same way Europeans valued gold. Around the 1870s, Te Otatu from Coromandel remarked: ‘Let the gold be worked by the white men. It was not a thing known to our ancestors. My only treasure is the pounamu.’ (Kati ano taku taonga nui i te pounamu.)1

The main deposits used by Māori are in the districts around the Taramakau and Arahura rivers in Westland, coastal south Westland and the Lake Wakatipu area in Otago. In addition, there is a significant field of bowenite in Milford Sound (Piopiotahi).

Traditionally, the pounamu in the Arahura River has been most important for Poutini Ngāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu people on the West Coast), with the junction of this river and Waitaiki (Olderog) Stream being particularly important.

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