Collection: Pounamu / Greenstone / New Zealand Jade

Pounamu is the Māori name given to New Zealand Greenstone, also called New Zealand Jade. Highly prized in Māori culture for its beauty, strength, and the belief that it was sacred.  Used as tools, adornment and reinforced the status of chiefs.

Pounamu is only found in the South Island of New Zealand. It is believed that the mineral deposits in the area and the melting glaciers wash the pounamu down the rivers and streams and that the particular mineral content make it exclusively the only place on earth where Pounamu can be found.

Therefore only Pounamu has the ability to whakapapa back to Aotearoa, making it priceless to Māori i te Ao, the Māori World.