This Hei Matau is handcrafted from Marsden Flower Pounamu, showing clear green tones with beautiful hue changes across the piece. The hook form is clean and well balanced, giving the piece a sense of lift and flow. Finished with a smooth polish, it carries clarity, strength, and refined presence.
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.
Marsden Putiputi (Flower)
Pounamu from the Marsden, West Coast area. The centre of this stone is a highly translucent, light-ish green shade, free from dark spots and other flaws. One of the rarest varieties, held in high esteem by the Māori. The most prized Greenstone in New Zealand is Flower Jade, 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 Gardiner
Size 91mm Long x 46mm wide x 8mm thick
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