Details

Product of Aeon Giftware
New Zealand Made

Approx 290mm x 90mm x 10mm

Crafted from plantation grown gaboon with super fine detail featured in a striking black and Rimu surround.

Believed to be a messenger that moves freely between the spirit realm and the human world, the Manaia is a mythological creature, greatly respected in Maori culture and a predominant motif in wood and greenstone carving.

Originally Maori had no written language, and symbolic meanings such as the manaia were embodied in carving, knots, and weaving to communicate and record stories, while traditional songs and dances shared the myths and folklore of ancestors.