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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10055177, member: 2844&quot;]New Zealand pounamu, which is usually nephrite jade and in this case it is.</p><p>What you are seeing under UV light is reflection of the blue-violet UV light, not fluorescence. Nephrite is inert in UV light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the lack of refinement I&#039;d say your Hei Tiki was made before the Maori Renaissance of the 1970s-80s, so probably 1960s.</p><p>Hei means pendant, a Tiki is an ancestral spirit, that can protect you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The red rings around the pupils used to be made with sealing wax, so it is a post European contact custom. I can&#039;t tell of these are sealing wax, but it looks like they could be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please don&#039;t ever attack jade Hei Tikis or any other innocent stone jewellery etc with a steel point.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie55" alt=":inpain:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> There are other ways of finding out what a stone is. Asking here, for instance.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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