{"title":"Pounamu","description":"\u003cp\u003ePounamu is the Mäori name given to New Zealand Greenstone, also called New Zealand\u003cbr\u003eJade. Highly prized in Mäori culture for its beauty, strength, and the belief that it was\u003cbr\u003esacred. Used as tools, adornment and reinforced the status of chiefs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePounamu is only found in the South Island of New Zealand. It is believed that the mineral\u003cbr\u003edeposits in the area and the melting glaciers wash the pounamu down the rivers and\u003cbr\u003estreams and that the particular mineral content make it exclusively the only place on earth where Pounamu can be found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTherefore only Pounamu has the ability to whakapapa back to Aotearoa, making it priceless to Mãori i te Ao, the Mãori World.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/4149\/1219\/collections\/VIEKOR015_df6f04cf-c80a-4a61-8970-fb5694774c2f.jpg?v=1780545427","url":"https:\/\/www.apieceofhome.co.nz\/collections\/pounamu.oembed","provider":"A Piece of Home - NZ Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}