Pounamu is a term for several types of hard and durable stone found in the South Island of New Zealand. They are highly valued in New Zealand, and carvings...

an opponent in the body or the head, usually made from nephrite jade (pounamu or greenstone). A mere is one of the traditional, hand to hand, one-handed...

"the Water(s) of Greenstone", Te Waipounamu possibly evolved from Te Wāhi Pounamu ("the Place of Greenstone"). When Captain James Cook visited in 1769, he...

Zealand, known as Te Wai Pounamu in Māori—"The [land of] Greenstone Water", or Te Wahi Pounamu—"The Place of Greenstone". Pounamu taonga increase in mana...

Museum, Westport Haast Visitor Centre National Pounamu Centre, Hokitika Greymouth centre    The Pounamu Pathway is a $34.5 million New Zealand tourism...

Taonga pūoro are the traditional musical instruments of the Māori people of New Zealand. The instruments previously fulfilled many functions within Māori...

Metrosideros umbellata, the southern rātā, is a tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to 15 metres (49 ft) or more tall with a trunk up to 1 metre (3 ft...

ornamental pendant of the Māori of New Zealand. Hei-tiki are usually made of pounamu (greenstone), and are considered a taonga (treasure) by Māori. They are...

[citation needed] Together with nephrite jade the Māori class bowenite as pounamu, which is also known as greenstone, and is of particular significance to...

jade, Beilstein, kidney stone, lapis nephriticus, nephrite, nephrite, pounamu, New Zealand greenstone, New Zealand jade, spinach jade (dark grayish green)...

Traditionally, matau, or fishhooks, were carved from bone, ivory, shell, wood, or pounamu; composite hooks were also common. They came in several different forms...

of New Zealand. Retrieved 15 February 2011. Keane, Basil (March 2009). "Pounamu – jade or greenstone – Implements and adornment". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia...

the patu was pounamu (greenstone). Maori decorated the patu by carving into the wood, bone or stone. Types of patu include: patu pounamu or mere: made...

mineralogist, particularly when working with pounamu, and undertook efforts to educate and support local Māori on pounamu. Beck helped to establish a restricted...

in Māori culture and is now popular in object-manipulation communities pounamu greenstone, jade, nephrite pōwhiri ceremony of welcome puku abdomen, tummy...

Manaia pounamu carving...

Fiti; a living island who, long ago, brought life to the ocean using a pounamu stone as her heart and the source of her power. One day, Maui, the shape-shifting...

hero, and trickster. Motoro Ngahue or Kahue, the god or discoverer of pounamu, the taniwha Poutini is his guardian. Pūhaorangi, a celestial being who...

is in. All have validity. [citation needed] List of Māori waka Ngāwhare-Pounamu (2008) Taonui, Rāwiri (22 September 2012). "Muriwhenua tribes – Ngāti Kurī...

Various assorted shillelagh (club). Traditional Māori mere, made from pounamu (nephrite jade). Head of Gata waka Ghioagă A club pictured in the coat...

father of Hine-kau-ataata. By extension, a tiki is a large or small wooden, pounamu or other stone carving in humanoid form, notably worn on the neck as a...

according to legend he discovered pounamu (Greenstone) and Ngahue killed a Moa (large flightless bird - now extinct). Pounamu was sometimes called Te Ika-o-Ngāhue...

Māori adzes from New Zealand were for wood carving, typically made from pounamu sourced from the South Island. During the Māori Archaic period found on...

Lydia Pounamu Bradey ONZM (born 9 October 1961) is a New Zealand mountaineer. She became the first woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental...

visited the Wānaka area to hunt and fish in summer, or on their way to seek pounamu (greenstone) on the West Coast. Ngāi Tahu abandoned their seasonal camps...

government negotiated for ownership of pounamu from the river to be restored and this was settled in the Ngai Tahu (Pounamu Vesting) Act 1997. The lower reaches...

large pā based around Kaiapoi, which was a major centre for the trade of pounamu. There was also a settlement in South New Brighton, Ngāi Tahu lived here...

other food species. The Classic period is characterised by finely made pounamu (greenstone) weapons and ornaments, elaborately carved war canoes and wharenui...

bring famous taonga (treasures), such as kākā and kiwi feather cloaks and pounamu mere, which would be placed alongside the tūpāpaku. These items were inherited...

was a natural crossroads. The Haast Pass led to the West Coast and its pounamu; the Cardrona Valley led to the natural rock bridge "Whatatorere" which...