| Then Maori used it, extensively, in regular migrations, and as a portage route for pounamu. |
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| Thomson said the stone would have individual plaques for each victim that he would create out of bronze with insets of pounamu. |
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| The pair were charged with stealing pounamu, or greenstone, a neglected treasure fused into fissures of southern mountains. |
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| I was wearing what I'm wearing now: this green pounamu stone from New Zealand, which brings good luck. |
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| Elsewhere, the deep green of pounamu marks the sources of greenstone, and silver and greys are deployed in a startling evocation of mist and spume. |
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| Maggie asked: 'What's that around your neck?' I told her it was a pounamu stone. |
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| She said: 'Very good luck with your pounamu.' At the end, everyone apart from me had won an Oscar. |
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| She also presented Banks with a pounamu necklace before being given a number of US-style bear-hugs in return. |
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| At the hui a-tau closing ceremony, Morgan was presented with a pounamu toki. |
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| Usually carved of green nephrite or a jadelike stone called pounamu that is found along the western coast of the South Island, hei tikis normally are worn only by women. |
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| The biggest shopping draw we found was the jade, called pounamu or greenstone by the Maoris. |
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| The Maori are believed to have discovered the region over 1,000 years ago, going there to collect greenstone or pounamu, which they used to carve jewellery and weapons. |
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| They were gathered in the heart of Auckland in the presence of Maori chief Te Kuru Pounamu, and Xena Warrior Princess star, Lucy Lawless. |
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| Artist Robyn Kahukiwa was awarded the Te Kura Pounamu for her book Matatuhi, translated by Kiwa Hammond. |
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