Maw Sit Sit carving

Carving cut from the rare gem material known as Maw Sit Sit. Maw Sit Sit is an unusual gem material first identified in 1963 by the late Swiss gemologist Dr. Edward Gubelin and named after the village in Northwestern Myanmar that is close to the site where it was first found. Maw-sit-sit is green with distinctive dark-green to black veining and is composed of a number of different minerals, including kosmochlor (a mineral related to jadeite) and varying amounts of jadeite and albite feldspar.