Pottering about, Sunday.

I spent a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon in the company of some accomodating Ngai Tahu women, learning how to make a crayfish pot from supplejack vines, like the one pictured. Most interesting to me was the 'tree' that the pot was built upon - a post on a swivel, that allowed the pot to be turned as it was worked upon, in the manner that a potters wheel allows the creation of perfectly centred clay pots.
It was lovely too, to sit with Aunty Jane Davis and catch up with some of the things that have been happening throughout the rohe since we last met, not the least being her plans to move to Otatara and the news that she's soon to celebrate her 80th birthday!
She's really something.