What wood is used for Maori carvings?
What wood is used for Maori carvings? Māori traditionally carved using wood from native New Zealand trees such as kauri and totara, with kauri being particularly precious as it is endemic to New Zealand and can grow to be thousands of years old. Māori also carved in stone, preferably the very hard pounamu (greenstone), or bone. What tools and methods were used to make Maori Jewellery? The most important tools were adzes (toki) and chisels (whao). Stone adze heads were lashed to a wooden handle and used in working wood, including canoe building. Chisels were primarily used for finer carving....