The Toki is 124mm in length and 42mm at its widest.
This Toki is carved from pounamu we have collected from the Rimu Area just South of Hokitika, on the West Coast of the South Island in New Zealand.
The Toki has an extremely strong, waxed nylon cord so the pendant can be worn ALL the time. It is four strands that have been hand platted into a special, round, 4-plait. The cord is adjustable by pinching the special knots between your thumb and finger and pulling.
This Toki also has the traditional cross-hatch binding around the top, which was one of the bindings used by the Maori to attach the Toki/adze blades to the wooden or bone handles to use as tools.
Pendant Meaning: The Toki is the adze blade, the tool. It gives the wearer strength and courage to face, get through, do and achieve anything in their life.
This Toki also has special carvings on the front. It has three Koru. Each Koru can represent an individual person, the family as a whole, your ancestors, an important place, time, event in ones life.
Where the two Koru come together it can represent two individuals or the family and your lives coming together in love, friendship and harmony. It is up to the wearer what meaning they put to the Koru's on this pendant to tell the story of their life.