UNIQUE ENGRAVED RARE NEW ZEALAND GREENSTONE POUNAMU JADE MAORI BOUND HEI TOKI

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ENGRAVED NEW ZEALAND GREENSTONE MARSDEN PATTERNED POUNAMU FLOWER JADE MAORI TRADITIONALLY BOUND HEI TOKI - designed, hand carved and perfectly finished by New Zealand/Pacific Island Tohunga Master Carver S Funaki. His exquisite and inimitable work is highly collectible especially his Pekapeka, Manaia and Hei Tiki and Hei Toki - recognized to be amongst the best in New Zealand and sold at New Zealand's principal Maori Art Galleries. This is a superb Hei Toki (adze) hand carved from BEAUTIFUL AND UNUSUAL ARAHURA NEPHRITE GREENSTONE POUNAMU JADE - wonderful CRYSTALLINE PATTERNS AND SHADES OF RICH DARK BLUE, GREEN AND GOLD IN THE JADE - from the South Island of New Zealand, expertly bound with traditional crossover binding onto a hand braided adjustable waxed cord. It has traditional Maori engraving on one side. It measures 2.2" by 1.2" with a depth of 8mms at the blade edge. Pounamu is found only in the South Island of New Zealand. 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. - there are ten main types of pounamu: Arahura - a dark velvet green Inanga - pale blue or green - can be opaque or translucent Totoweka - a rare type - streaked or spotted with red Kahotea - dark green with darker inclusions Kawakawa - rich leaf green sometimes with dark freckling Kohuwai - a misty grey blue with vivid bright green - like moss in a stream. Kokopu - sometimes called troutstone - silver or golden green with brown freckling Kahurangi - emerald clear green sometimes with white feathering - highly prized Raukaraka - called Flower Jade - varied greens with gold/orange blooms Tangiwai - bowenite - found only in certain areas of Aotearoa NZ - dark blue/green - exceptional translucence. You are welcome at my auctions - please read my 100% feedback and know you are buying ONE OF A KIND CARVINGS BY NATIVE NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS exactly as described and pictured. DON'T SETTLE FOR VERY INFERIOR TOURIST MASS PRODUCED SOUVENIRS - many of the low priced so called "Maori" jade carvings you see on eBay at the moment are not carved in New Zealand and not New Zealand jade. The carvings I offer are priced incredibly reasonably for genuine artist carved NZ 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! New Zealand gold 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. COMBINED LOW COST SHIPPING WORLDWIDE I will airmail ship as many items as you want for one flat fee of $10.00 Please note this is regular airmail shipping - no insurance or tracking - takes 7 - 14 days to reach you - please ask if you would like your purchase shipped differently - it costs extra. supremeauctiononlinesoftware.widgets.GalleryBasicFree.swf read more

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