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The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...
New Zealand art coverage in Wikipedia is really short of images of people. As for images of works, that's even harder, as the copyright is owned by the artists, who have to agree to release an image under an open licence. One way to solve this problem is for artists to take photographs of their own work and donate those to Commons.
[8] [9] In 2012 he had his first survey exhibition, 'Joe Sheehan: Other Stories', at Pataka Art + Museum in Porirua, New Zealand. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Sheehan was commissioned by the Wellington Sculpture Trust to produce Walk the Line , a site-specific sculpture, for the refurbishment of the Wellington cenotaph .
Hinepare, a woman of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe, wearing a hei-tiki Hei-tiki; circa 18th century; nephrite and haliotis shell; height: 10.9 cm (4 1 ⁄ 4 in.); from New Zealand; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA) The hei-tiki (Māori pronunciation: [hɛi ˈtiki], New Zealand English: / h eɪ ˈ t ɪ k i / [1]) is an ornamental pendant of ...
Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990 and covering 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), the site incorporates four national parks: Aoraki / Mount Cook; Fiordland; Mount Aspiring; Westland Tai ...
For example, many designs incorporated Christian symbols such as the cross. Traditional pieces of island jewellery were occasionally made for religious purposes. Many pieces were created for tribal ceremonies, tattoo rituals and marriage. In fact, use of jewellery for religious functions in the Pacific was as common as in any other culture.
Manaia pounamu carving. The Manaia is a mythological creature in Māori culture, and is a common motif in Māori carving [1] and jewellery.. The Manaia is usually depicted as having the head of a bird and the tail of a fish and the body of a man, though it is sometimes depicted as a bird, a serpent, or a human figure in profile.
Polished slab of bowenite serpentine, a variety of antigorite.. Bowenite is a hard, compact variety of the serpentinite species antigorite (Mg 3 (OH)O 4 Si 2 O 5). [1] Classed as a semi-precious gemstone, [2] it has been used for tools, weapons and jewellery by the Māori in New Zealand, [3] [4] and for jewellery by Fabergé. [5]