Learn about the practices associated with Māori arts whilst creating a Pounamu Whales Tooth taonga in this 1-day workshop. Using traditional methods and also modern machinery participants will get to create a Rei Niho (Whales tooth) pendant.

Pounamu whales tooth workshop Rei niho Paraoa or Rei Puta are pendants traditionally made from whales’ teeth. These taonga can be traced back to Eastern Polynesia and the first wave of ancient adventurers who landed in Aotearoa.

These contemporary Pounamu whales’ teeth represent the voyaging mavericks that travelled the Pacific and intrepidly explored new lands using ocean currents and star maps to cross the seas and discover the undiscovered lands of the Pacific.