Whakarite kai

Broken slate knife. Distal end remaining. Surface is grounded on both sides. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Broken schist knife, no discernable cutting edge. Surface is grounded on both sides, with flake scarring on both surfaces.

Complete sinker with deep quartered groove. Flattened on one end, the end is smaller.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Rourou (food bowl). Woven with twelve whenu (strands) of harakeke (flax) from the centre outwards in a takitahi pattern. Completed with a whiri (braid) tied with a piece of flax that is looped through the basket and knotted into a handle. Rourou were frequently constructed as single or limited use items as they were quick and easy to weave.

Incomplete sinker with no apparent transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with deep tranverse lashing groove.

Incomplete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

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 both ends. Six other prongs lashed to one end of the handle with two metal braces and muka fibre.

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.