This Inanga Flower Hei Matau is stunning. The colouring is particularly distinctive, with soft olive greens flowing into dramatic charcoal feathering, while rich golden honey and caramel tones emerge through the lower half of the carving. It almost resembles the first light of sunrise breaking over a New Zealand landscape, making it a truly one-of-a-kind piece.
Hei Matau(Fishhook) - Originally Maori have been fishermen. Their main food source was the sea, so a fishhook of high quality was a very valuable item to own. The hook became a symbol of prosperity, abundance, good health, power, authority and respect for the sea and its life in it. They also provide good luck and safety while travelling across water.
Inanga- Pounamu takes its name from a freshwater fish native to New Zealand. It is pale and often transparent, like the young of the Inanga fish. It is pearly white to grey green in colour, and ranges from translucent to quite opaque. It can change colour over time, developing a light olive tint as it ages and oxidises - Highly prized by the Māori and the desired material for making Mere and Patu.
Putiputi (Flower) Jade- is New Zealand’s most prized Greenstone, with pale green or ochre clouds of colour. This distinctive patterning and colouring come from the outside rim or 'rind' of the greenstone boulders or stones where the surface has oxidised.
Carved by Luke Leaf
Size 75mm Long x 33mm wide x 4mm thick
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