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Complete korotete (holding basket for live eels), made of woven vines. Two loops at the base and two near the top. Woven vine lid with handle fits on tapered top.

Complete two-mouthed hinaki (eel trap). Two-strand, half-twisted twining made from vine. Stick-like projections at the end of the eel funnels. Four internal braces woven into body. Bait door at one end with two rounded handles. Another larger handle on the other side.

Very thick vine twisted into a large knot, sawn off at each end.

Complete hinaki (eel trap), made from vine. Eel funnel at one end with plaited internal end. Elongated, bulbous body, tapered to another opening at the other end (without a lid or funnel). Plaited handle attached below the opening.

Complete matarau (eel spear). Wooden handle worked to a sharp point at one end. Six other prongs lashed to the point of the handle with vines and muka fibre.

A piece of thick vine that has been twisted into a loop, and worked to a dull point at each end.

A piece of thick vine that has been twisted into a loop, and worked to a dull point at each end.