Puwerewere -- Spider Web
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$225.00
$225.00
per item
Puwerewere -- Spider Web "ONLY ONE AVAILABLE"
The bone necklace features the Puwerewere (spider web), Taratara-a-kai (the zigzag notch), Niho Taniwha (the dragon tooth notch) Mata kupenga (fishnet mesh) . These are Māori designs that signify the connection and importance of the natural world and the existence of human life. Based on the shape of a new, unfurling fern frond and thereby symbolizing new life, growth, strength and peace. It is an integral symbol in Māori art. The circular shape of the koru helps to convey the idea of perpetual movement while the inner coil suggests a return to the point of origin.
It is believed that a carving -- taonga -- which is worn with respect or given and received with love, takes on part of the spirit of those who wear or handle it. In this way it becomes a spiritual link between people spanning time and distance. A carving that has been worn by family or tribal members over many generations contains the spirit of all of those people and is truly a great and powerful treasure.
Pāua shells are recognised as taonga, or treasure, esteemed both as kaimoana --seafood and as a valued resource for traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. Pāua are frequently used to represent the eyes in Māori carvings and traditionally are associated with the stars or whetū, the symbolic eyes of ancestors that gaze down from the night sky.
The bone necklace features the Puwerewere (spider web), Taratara-a-kai (the zigzag notch), Niho Taniwha (the dragon tooth notch) Mata kupenga (fishnet mesh) . These are Māori designs that signify the connection and importance of the natural world and the existence of human life. Based on the shape of a new, unfurling fern frond and thereby symbolizing new life, growth, strength and peace. It is an integral symbol in Māori art. The circular shape of the koru helps to convey the idea of perpetual movement while the inner coil suggests a return to the point of origin.
It is believed that a carving -- taonga -- which is worn with respect or given and received with love, takes on part of the spirit of those who wear or handle it. In this way it becomes a spiritual link between people spanning time and distance. A carving that has been worn by family or tribal members over many generations contains the spirit of all of those people and is truly a great and powerful treasure.
Pāua shells are recognised as taonga, or treasure, esteemed both as kaimoana --seafood and as a valued resource for traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. Pāua are frequently used to represent the eyes in Māori carvings and traditionally are associated with the stars or whetū, the symbolic eyes of ancestors that gaze down from the night sky.
