Three old Maori greenstone tiki sold for $US45,600 at Sotheby’s auction in New York earlier today. One 9.2cm long tiki, acquired possibly from Ernest E. Leaning of ...

Tikis were and still are made by the Maoris out of NZ greenstone, a type of Jade which ... It is forbidden to steal a Tiki but if one is found it may be kept. This was found in Aukland's King ...

A Maori staff, hand club and greenstone tiki fetched more than double their estimated price at Sotheby's in New York. Jeff Hobbs, Oceanic art expert at Auckland auction house Webb's, said the ...

Last year, a rare collection that included a Maori staff, hand club and greenstone tiki fetched more than double their estimated prices at Sotheby's in New York. The Ministry of Culture and ...

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 ...

They are based on the Maori hei tiki, highly valued neck ornaments, often carved out of pounamu, or NZ jade ("greenstone"). On the left is a green plastic Air New Zealand tiki given to passengers ...

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 ...