UNIQUE MAORI ART NZ AOTEA STONE FUSCHITE DEER ANTLER GOLD PEKAPEKA NECKLACE

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UNIQUE MAORI ART NZ AOTEA STONE FUSCHITE DEER ANTLER GOLD PEKAPEKA NECKLACE:
$645.00

&amp;lt;div style=\"text-decoration:none\" height=\"27px\" valign=\"middle\" face=\"arial\" &amp;lt;img BEAUTIFUL 100% UNIQUE ART WORK - THREE DIMENSIONAL SMOOTH AND TACTILE - STUNNING NEW ZEALAND MAORI FUSCHITE PEKAPEKA (BAT) NECKLACE - COMPLETELY HAND CARVED ON BOTH SIDES byNew Zealand master carver JEROMY VAN RIEL - whose work is displayed at top New Zealand galleries and our national museum Te Papa - his artefact like work is completely unique - expertly carved BOTH SIDES. THIS IS SUPER RARE TOP GRADE TURQUOISE FUSCHITE INLAID WITH 18k GOLD AND DEER ANTLER.
Hand carved by Jeromy,it is finished with a soft satin glow and measures 4\" by 2.2\" with a rounded depth of 1.1\" - weight of 78gms - bound and suspended on both sides and across the top on a 18\" brown hand braided cord with hand carved matching Aotea stone toggle. A TRUE COLLECTOR\'S WEARABLE ART PIECE - ONE OF KIND.
The Pekapeka is a mysterious symbol representing the native bat of Aotearoa New Zealand - a child of Tane (God of the Forest) said to protect the wearer from lethal accidents.

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!

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 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.

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.

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