| Maggie asked: 'What's that around your neck?' I told her it was a pounamu stone. |
| Thomson said the stone would have individual plaques for each victim that he would create out of bronze with insets of pounamu. |
| Then Maori used it, extensively, in regular migrations, and as a portage route for pounamu. |
| 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. |
| She said: 'Very good luck with your pounamu.' At the end, everyone apart from me had won an Oscar. |
| The pair were charged with stealing pounamu, or greenstone, a neglected treasure fused into fissures of southern mountains. |
