gathering kuta

 On Thursday, Ngā Here Kahikatea went down south to lake Ianthe to  gather kuta out of the lake and a flax-like plant called KieKie. We are going to be weaving these plants. To get the kuta out of the lake we had to walk out into the cold water and reach down to get the slimy plant off the bottom since I was in the water up to my neck and all the boys just went swimming. We were popping manus and stuff. 

It was really fun. Once we were finished and dry we had to go and get the kiekie. We had to pull the plant off the stalk. There were two white lines we were looking for on the plant. What we had to do was peel the outside of the plant off as close as we could to the white. Once we had done that we had to let it dry.