Pounamu

This image was made of the rarer kind of pounamu, as the ❋ Unknown (1907)

I hang from your neck pounamu – ancient and revered, the Mother of beginnings... ❋ Ivan Donn Carswell (2008)

Kiaora, this is awesome information... things we have known and been told by our ancestors are being proven more and more these days, the polynesian chickens in south america, the marquesan adzes in Hawaii, the Kumara, the mere pounamu from Aotearoa in a tahitian swamp, the evidence is mounting... : thanks ❋ Unknown (2005)

Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bray and her team mates were also formally welcomed to the New Zealand team, each receiving a pounamu pendant carved from a single piece of the precious stone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Someone smashed a glass panel on Te Whiti's tomb and took the "priceless" pounamu mere last month and it was recovered from bushes on the pa grounds last week after a Hamilton woman told police where it was. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Morgan Saxton, 30, and father David, 62, were last year found guilty of the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of pounamu from Ngai Tahu.