One Māori tradition I brought home with me from a recent two-week trip to New Zealand comes in the form of beautiful nephrite jade, also known as pounamu or greenstone. The stone is revered by ...

Maori carvers use greenstone to create versions of ... Ngai Tahu runs a pounamu jewelry business. New Zealand’s modern-day laws recognize pounamu (pronounced poe-nuh-moo) as a taonga, or ...