Summary

Portrait of Horatio Gordon Robley Horatio Gordon Robley Pounamu : Notes on New Zealand Greenstone… (1915)

Kahotea, dark spotted greenstone.
kahurangi, translucent greenstone.
kaka, the large russet parrot.
kapeu, see tautau.
kara, hard stone other than greenstone.
karakia, spells.
kakariki, the colour green, also a small green parrot and a green lizard.
karanga, welcome!
kaui, the neck cord of the hei-tiki.
kauri, a New Zealand pine.
kawakawa, dark jade without spots.
kia ora koe, may you be well!
kiripaka, flint.
kohuwai, jade with moss-like marks.
kuru, a greenstone hammer, also a cylindrical ear-pendant.
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