Traditional Māori pounamu carvers are rare, says Rotorua’s Tamaroa Daniel Walker. He is the only greenstone carver to be a ...

Traditional Māori pounamu carvers are rare, says Rotorua’s Tamaroa Daniel Walker. He is the only greenstone carver to be a ...

Three people were arrested at a complex in Greenstone in Gauteng following allegations they were involved in an illegal gold smuggling operation. The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation ...

Three hours later, the ceremony for the other prizes will start in Stockholm's concert hall. They include the Literature Prize, which has gone to South Korean author Han Kang, and 10 other winners ...

Browsing local art and craft galleries is one of the joys of travel. In New Zealand you get the added bonus of an art-rich indigenous culture to discover. Traditional Maori crafts include weaving, ...

Chased by Waitaiki's husband Tama Ahua, Poutini the taniwha placed Waitaiki into the river where she turned to greenstone or pounamu. Poutini swam out through the rivermouth of the Arahura and today ...

Riana Te Ngahue (Ngāti Porou), a young Māori lawyer, started making TikToks for people like her uncles "who don't really care about the Treaty". But now her bite-sized breakdowns of complex Māori ...

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which is the traditional Maori system of tattooing, and wearing a large pounamu tiki (a carved human figure made usually from New Zealand greenstone) pendant around his neck, according to The New ...

The privately owned work was first exhibited in Paris, France, in 1939 and featured a Maori elder with an intricate moko (facial tattoo) and wearing a large pounamu (greenstone or New Zealand jade ...