Hei tiki, a carved jade piece from Otago Museum in New ZealandNew Zealand Pavilion will exhibit two jades, one from China and one from the South Pacific nation, during the 2010 Expo Shanghai China.
Hei tiki, a carved jade piece from Otago Museum in New Zealand, belonged to the family of a Maori clan chief. It is a miniature of a Maori man sitting with his head up, and it is 16cm high and 9.6cm wide.
Another jade piece on show will be a cong from Shanghai Museum dating back 5,000 years. It is square of 21.6cm tall and 7.3cm wide.
New Zealand has borrowed the Chinese jade to show a shared culture between the two nations.
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