This incredible Porohita handcrafted from a stunning piece of Inanga Flower Pounamu, mounted onto a beautiful Granite base, with stunning pattern and colour this Taonga will be treasured and passed through the generations.
Porohita/The Disc - Represents the circle of life which has no beginning or end. It means you have a choice to do and achieve whatever you want to in life. Its curved lines also represent the idea of energy and movement and like the cyclical nature of time and seasons, where one path ends, another begins. The Disc is also believed to have protective qualities and can symbolize a shield or a boundary that keeps negative influences and harm at bay.
Sculpture -
Inanga- Pounamu takes its name from a freshwater fish native to New Zealand. It is pale and often transparent, like the young of the Inanga fish. It is pearly white to grey green in colour, and ranges from translucent to quite opaque. It can change colour over time, developing a light olive tint as it ages and oxidises - Highly prized by the Māori and the desired material for making Mere and Patu.
Flower Jade- is New Zealand’s most prized 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.
Base - Granite- In New Zealand is confined to the South Island and Stewart Island. There are three major meridionally trending belts in north-west Nelson- Separation Point to Mt Murchison, Kahurangi Point to Ahaura River, and Paparoa Range to Kongahu Point. Granite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground.
Hand Carved by Jayme Anderson
Size Sculpture 96mm dia
Base – Granite 114mmlong x 37mm wide x 61mm high
Total height 134mm
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