Greenstone / Pounamu Pendant Manaia Hook 50mm

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Source from South Island Greenstone / Pounamu, and craved in New Zealand. 

Each piece of pounamu is lashed onto an adjustable wax cord that measures 70cm at full length.

  • Measure: 50H x 30W (mm) 
  • Handcrafted in New Zealand
  • Each piece is hand-carved individually, no two are the same. 

Manania represents a spiritual guardian who protects wearer from evil. Traditionally with head of a bird, body of a man and tail of a fish creating balance of sky, earth and water.

Fish Hook (Hei Matau) represents Determination, strength, peace, prosperity and safe journey especially over water.

Pounamu, or New Zealand Jade, is a majestic stone sourced from the coastal regions, riverbeds, and Glaciers of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Traditionally utilised by Maori tribes, the stone was, at that time, seen as the strongest substance known to man.

Pounamu was sought for its robustness when used as a tool for hunting, fishing and fighting. For spiritual practice, the stones ethereal qualities and deep green colour were admired, also now, in our contemporary world.

It is a popular belief that Pounamu contains something more than rock, and when touched, this is noticed, whether this something is metaphysical or otherwise. Pounamu was formed into jewellery, heirlooms and spiritual symbols by the tribes most highly placed individuals, among the chiefs: the carvers. Employing sandstone, bark, and black obsidian, these masters of the elements spent weeks, months, even years, to gratify the best outcome for a piece of Pounamu.

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Greenstone / Pounamu Pendant Manaia Hook 50mm