Culture (Kerry Thompson)

Jeweller: Kerry Thompson (Maori Jeweller)

 Kerry Thompson has made this maori bone carving and named this neclace Toki Adze Blade. Kerry completed a diploma course in Maori design at Waiariki Polytechnic. He then became a fulltime artist working primily at Jade and Bone. Kerry has put alot of creative patterns onto his bone carving plus some other maori designs he did. He made this bone to represent his culture and tradition. He made this using a carver or blades to cut off the koru pattern. He also colours this bone silver so the colours can also relates to the silver and gold symbols.

Kerry named this bone carving Ponga - Silver fern. He carves 4 koru patterns on each side of his bone and represents his maori traditions. He uses a tie up string to finish off making his bone carving neclace. I borrowed this image from the website the Tahi Jewellery. He uses variety of materials such as cattle bone, whale bone, ivory, mother of pearl, jade, wood, silver and semi precious stones. The reason why I borrowed this image is because I like the koru patterns and it really shows me interests to carve or cut patterns.