This stunning Toki is handcrafted from a fabulous piece of Te Tau Ihu Nelson Grey Pipiwharauroa Pounamu, with fantastic chatoyant patterns this is a special piece.
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.
Pīpīwharauroa -
This is a rare and unique type of stone usually found in the Inanga, Tangiwai, Kawakawa and Nelson Pounamu varieties. Named after the shining cuckoo, the green and white shimmering plumage are like the thin bands of light that cause a chatoyant effect like a cat’s eye as the stone is moved about.
Chatoyance
is an optical phenomenon in which a band of reflected light, known as a "Cat's-Eye," moves just beneath the surface of a cabochon-cut. Chatoyance occurs in stones that contain many very thin parallel inclusions within the stone, known as a "silk." The light reflects from these inclusions to form a thin band across the surface of the stone. The band of light always occurs at right angles to the length of the parallel inclusions.
Hand carved by Tim Steel
Size 49mm Long x 57mm Wide x 12mm thick
This will be the exact piece you will receive in the photos, there may be a slight degree of colour variation based on different computer or device screen resolutions that you are viewing from.
