| She said: 'Very good luck with your pounamu.' At the end, everyone apart from me had won an Oscar. |
| 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. |
| Maggie asked: 'What's that around your neck?' I told her it was a pounamu stone. |
| The pair were charged with stealing pounamu, or greenstone, a neglected treasure fused into fissures of southern mountains. |
| At the hui a-tau closing ceremony, Morgan was presented with a pounamu toki. |
| I was wearing what I'm wearing now: this green pounamu stone from New Zealand, which brings good luck. |
