Pounamu Stories: Meet the Carvers and Shop Owners
Conversations with the people behind the pounamu in our directory. Carvers, galleries and shop owners from across Aotearoa share how they came to the stone, where it comes from and what goes into every piece.
Where the stone comes from
Provenance, in the words of the people who work with it.
How a piece is made
From raw stone on the bench to a finished taonga.
What the stone means to them
The personal connections behind each business.
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Antoinette of Your PRANA: Carving Pounamu in Te Tai Tokerau
"My job is partly to carve it, but also to pay attention to what is already there."
A Kerikeri carver on growing up with a love of stones, working with pounamu far from the rivers it comes from, and why the story behind a taonga matters as much as the stone.
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