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The coverage of pounamu in Wikipedia is pretty atrocious but the supposedly C-class article gets about 180 views a day. It would be great to have photos documenting the process of carving, the different classifications of stone, a gallery of objects etc.
Te Kauwhata College. Te Kauwhata Primary School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, [16] [17] with a roll of 334 as of August 2024. [18] [19] Te Kauwhata College is a co-educational state secondary school for Year 7 to 13 students, [20] [21] with a roll of 456. [22] The town also has three early childhood ...
Ngāti Kauwhata is a Māori iwi (tribe) located in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The iwi has ancestral ties to Tainui Waka and Maungatautari . The iwi has two main marae , Kauwhata Marae (Kai Iwi Pā) [ 1 ] & Aorangi Marae. [ 2 ]
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 ...
The mockumentary film Hei Tiki was released in 1935, with a New York Times review describing the plot as being about a "chieftain's daughter who is declared tabu and destined to be the bride of the war god", attributing the title to mean "love charm" (a Hei-tiki pendant interpretation).
The Pounamu Pathway is a $34.5 million New Zealand tourism venture, launched in 2020 by the Māori hapū or subtribe Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Waewae, intended to create four linked visitor experience centres on the West Coast of the South Island.
Kauwhata is a rural locality and a statistical area in Manawatū District, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region in New Zealand's central North Island. The locality is named after a Māori chief who originally owned the land.
The Ngāti Hauā Iwi Trust board established their rohe as the central Waikato region with the approximate boundaries running from Mount Te Aroha in the northeast down to Mount Maungatautari in the southeast, along a line south of Cambridge to about 8 km west of the Waikato River, then along a line parallel to, but west of, the Waikato river to the south edge of the Taupiri Gorge.