Golden haul on show

In the museum at Kiwi North we have many stunning examples of kauri gum on display. In addition to the giant imitation hokey pokey stack, there are several polished and unpolished specimens, finely carved ornaments, pendants and busts, and even a trinket box which upon very close inspection reveals a beetle, trapped by nature in a golden casing, making the whole Jurassic Park concept seem unnervingly viable.

There are some beautiful examples of kauri gum for sale in the gift shop at Kiwi North too, the perfect gift perhaps for that hard-to-shop-for person . . . a one-of-a-kind piece of natural history, dating back hundreds of thousands of years.