Maori carvers use greenstone to create versions of the design, an echo of the legend that Maui pulled their islands from the sea. A hei matau, made from pounamu, the Maori word for New Zealand jade or ...
Pounamu in all kinds of shapes and sizes, with and without marked-out patterns, are spread across several workstations at the Sands Carving Studio workshop. Dust particles are dancing through the air ...