Diverging from his practice based in traditional Māori carving Karaitiana presents a 2.6 million year old Megalodon fossil strung on a hand woven polyester adjustable cord to the swamp.

Karaitiana Akroyd is owns and runs Maarika pounamu with his wife Josie, Karaitiana is a talent young carver who specialises in making beautiful custom pounamu and bone toanga as well as impressive larger scale sculptural stone works.