Whakarite kai

Complete sinker with very faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove

Complete plaster cast of a tatā (canoe bailer). Painted mid brown. Surface water stain and cracking inside scoop. Handle projects over the scoop, with a carving and two perforations on the butt. Back of the scoop has a wheku figure carving. Cast has been broken and repaired at the base of the handle and on several places on the scoop.

Complete hue (gourd container or calabash). Mid brown and mid orange. Very elongated, slightly curved at the base and tapering toward the neck. Top edge is broken and irregular. Two straight perforations drilled on either side of the neck.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove

Broken sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove

Complete sinker with wide, faint transverse lashing groove

Complete sinker with deep quartered lashing grooves. It is flattened on one side.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove