It is a type of rock and it is green and you can carve it.
Pounamu is the Māori name for a type of greenstone or jade found in New Zealand. It is considered a precious stone with cultural significance to the Māori people, often used to create jewelry, carvings, and other traditional items.
Pounamu is the Maori name for a type of greenstone or jade that holds cultural significance for the Maori people of New Zealand. It is highly valued for its beauty and spiritual properties, and is often used in traditional Maori carvings and jewelry.
Pounamu, or greenstone, can be used today for creating jewelry such as pendants, earrings, and bracelets. It is also used for carving traditional Maori cultural items like toki (adzes) and mere (short clubs). Additionally, pounamu is sometimes used for decorative ornaments and sculptures.
Pounamu is the Maori word for green stone. All pounamu in New Zealand belongs to Maori and cannot be collected from its natural environment by any other race- other people can buy it though. Pounamu is a very treasured stone to Maori.
Greenstone is called Pounamu in Maori. It is a type of green nephrite jade that holds significant cultural and spiritual importance to the Maori people of New Zealand.
Maori pounamu, also known as New Zealand greenstone or jade, varies in color and can be shades of green, grey, or black. The most prized color is a rich, deep green.
it means green jade orstoen
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Pounamu from New Zealand is known as greenstones.
Pounamu are found in New Zealand. New Zealand is made up of two islands, the north and the south. Pounamu, or actually Te Wai Pounamu, is 'The South Island'. Green stones, also known as Jade, are found in New Zealand. The natives (Maori) people carved jade into weapons and necklaces called pounamu. The maori believed-and some still do-that Pounamu protects you from evil spirits, the more clear and pure (lighter) the pounamu (Jade stone) is, the more it will protect you.
pounamu and ranges in colour from a rich vivid green to a much darker shade
Pounamu was highly prized by Maori for its hardness, its beauty and its spiritual significance.
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'Pounamu', is known as a greenstone or green jade. You know, the jewelery New Zealanders wear
Pounamu comes in a variety of types and colours. One type is called 'Kahurangi' and is a highly translucent lightish green with lighter streaks.
Pounamu
You could say either Pounamu or Taonga.