Hope I get an invite to your big day, Shunda. Auckland was very interesting indeed but I won't be asking it's hand. I respect my little seaside town too much for that. Karangahape Road was worth wandering along, if only so I could thank my lucky stars.
I have found 3 pieces of Pounamu in the soil I am leveling, they have sharpened edges and seem to fit into the hand comfortably. They are otherwise quite rough, more like Pounamu splinters off a larger boulder, but they have definitely been worked to produce a sharp edge, you can see the scratch marks.
Do you know much about this stuff Robert? It is entirely possible (actually quite probable) that the area near my house was an important eel fishery. Perhaps I have discovered some sort of processing area? Did Maori use these tools for fishing or flax cutting? In this area it could possibly have been both.
Shunda - I do know about this stuff, having worked at the Southland Museum for 2 years, as well as having found such materials on D'Urville Island and here in Riverton. Yours do sound as though they are shards. If they were toki, you'd recognise them as such. It's quite possible you have a processing site there - discarded bits and pieces are commonly found where the pounamu was worked. You might like to take them into your nearest runanga to give them a squiz at them. They'll know. It may be that they are simple knives for cutting harakeke and tuna as you suggest. Either way, yours is a very interesting find.
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Define "rights".
All I can hear is a bunch of bigots making "demands".
That's right folks, bigotry also exists left of the divide despite claims to the contrary.
Jeeze, Shunda! Relax. It's the weekend. Those bigots you hear - they're in your head :-)
Sorry Robert, I was being captain intensity for a second there!
How did your trip go? I just spent some time working near Hasst, I love South Westland so much I could marry it! (soon I might be able too:-) )
Hope I get an invite to your big day, Shunda.
Auckland was very interesting indeed but I won't be asking it's hand. I respect my little seaside town too much for that. Karangahape Road was worth wandering along, if only so I could thank my lucky stars.
I found what I think may be Taonga Robert.
I have found 3 pieces of Pounamu in the soil I am leveling, they have sharpened edges and seem to fit into the hand comfortably. They are otherwise quite rough, more like Pounamu splinters off a larger boulder, but they have definitely been worked to produce a sharp edge, you can see the scratch marks.
Do you know much about this stuff Robert? It is entirely possible (actually quite probable) that the area near my house was an important eel fishery. Perhaps I have discovered some sort of processing area? Did Maori use these tools for fishing or flax cutting? In this area it could possibly have been both.
Shunda - I do know about this stuff, having worked at the Southland Museum for 2 years, as well as having found such materials on D'Urville Island and here in Riverton. Yours do sound as though they are shards. If they were toki, you'd recognise them as such. It's quite possible you have a processing site there - discarded bits and pieces are commonly found where the pounamu was worked. You might like to take them into your nearest runanga to give them a squiz at them. They'll know. It may be that they are simple knives for cutting harakeke and tuna as you suggest. Either way, yours is a very interesting find.
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