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New Zealand Paua Shell Pendants are a beautiful form of jewellery, unique to New Zealand. Maori have used the Paua Shell to decorate their carvings, weapons and meeting houses for 200 years. Now, the Paua Shell is used to create stunningly beautiful necklaces and other jewellery, worn with pride as a symbol of New Zealand.
Paua is a type of abalone and is the largest, commonest and therefore best known of the New Zealand abalone species. This shellfish is unique to New Zealand's coastal waters. The Paua is renowned throughout the world not only for its beautiful shell but also for its full-flavoured flesh. Paua meat is a traditional delicacy for the Maori. Paua shell is a natural material and therefore the jewellery we supply may vary in colour from the pieces shown on our website. You can see the variation to expect by looking across all of the samples shown.
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