Jewelry making in the Pacific started later than in other areas because of human settlement in recent years. At the beginning of gems in the Pacific was bone, wood and other natural materials, and therefore do not survive. Most of the jewels of the Pacific has been on the waist, with headdresses, necklaces, hair pins and arm and waist belt is the most common parts.
Jewellery in the Pacific, with the exception of Australia, was a symbol of fertility or performance. elaborate headdresses are worn by many Pacific cultures and some, like the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, wear certain head Mattresses once they have killed an enemy. Member of the tribe can use pork bone through his nose.
One of the few plants to create her jewelry, as many centuries before the New Zealand Mori, create Hei-Tiki was continued. Because of the Hei-Tiki is used is not clear but may relate to an ancestor, as Tiki was the first Mori, or fertility, as there is a close connection between him and Tiki. Another proposal is that historians Tiki is a product of the old belief in a god named Tiki, perhaps before the Moris settled in New Zealand. Hei-Tiki is traditionally by hand from bone (commonly whale), nephrite or bowenite carved a long and spiritually.
The Hei-tiki is now frequented by tourists can buy souvenirs or jewelry stores.
