This Toki is carved from Raukaraka Pounamu, showing warm olive and golden-green tones with natural patterns unique to this stone. The classic Toki form is clean and balanced, finished with a beautiful polish highlighting the stone’s depth and colour.
Toki/Adze – The Toki had much meaning for the Māori, fashioned from stone or greenstone it was an essential tool for survival and day to day life for the Māori. That is the reason Māori attribute the spiritual meaning of strength and power to the Toki. This symbol represents Mana, determination, control, strength, focus and honour.
Raukaraka- Genuine West Coast Greenstone from the Taramakau River Area. This is the term used by the Māori of the Cook Strait region of the Kawakawa variety that is streaked with a shade of olive green and has yellow and orange hues that blend into the greens. This stone shares its name with the New Zealand native Karaka tree.
Hand Carved by Jayme Anderson
Size 86mm long x 34mm wide x 11mm thick
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