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  • noun Nephrite; jade; greenstone.

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Examples

  • This image was made of the rarer kind of pounamu, as the

    The Hand in the Dark 1907

  • I hang from your neck pounamu – ancient and revered, the Mother of beginnings...

    Archive 2008-01-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • I hang from your neck pounamu – ancient and revered, the Mother of beginnings...

    Cloak Of Feathers Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • Kiaora, this is awesome information... things we have known and been told by our ancestors are being proven more and more these days, the polynesian chickens in south america, the marquesan adzes in Hawaii, the Kumara, the mere pounamu from Aotearoa in a tahitian swamp, the evidence is mounting... : thanks

    Prehistoric Contact Between Polynesia and California? 2005

  • Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Police today executed search warrants at commercial pounamu retail and manufacturing outlets at Hokitika where a substantial quantity of the unique variety of "snowflake" pounamu or greenstone was seized.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • We visit Stonehenge’s massive sarsen stones on Salisbury plain in the UK, uncover the science and mythology of the pounamu greenstones in New Zealand and follow the racial and political history of the Black Belt, a region of dark, fertile soil in the US South that was dominated by cotton plantations, following the forced removal of Indigenous communities.

    The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology Dhruti Shah 2025

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  • See greenstone.

    April 14, 2011