Basket Made From Vines The eel basket (hinaki) is made from a vine (aka) which grows along the ground in bushy gullies, sometimes reaching up to 30 feet in length. After the aka is gathered, it is put into boiling water. When this is done the thin bark is easily scraped off with a mussel (kuku) shell and the aka is then hung out in the sun to dry. Akas which are about the thickness of a lead pencil are used for the frame and ribs of the hinaki, and finer akas are used to cover the outside. The hinaki are made in different sizes, some of them being huge affairs over three feet high and six to seven feet long.
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Te Ao Hou, June 1965, Page 36
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121Basket Made From Vines Te Ao Hou, June 1965, Page 36
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