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Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove

Complete sinker with a deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove

Broken sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove

Broken sinker, missing one end, with shallow transverse lashing groove

Complete matarau (eel spear). Both ends of the shaft taper to a point. The matarau has seven tines, three each side of the shaft point. The two exterior tines extend approximately 25cm to reach the shaft, where the shaft has been notched to hold them. The proper right exterior tine has been notched six times near the base of the tine.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove

Broken barbed one-piece bone fishhook, point and tip remaining. Barb is on the internal lateral margin. There are deep notches on the external lateral margin, at the site of the break. The tip is blunt.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.