The second component is a sharp pointed tip that sits perpendicular to the curved end of the first piece, and which has been tightly lashed to it with a thick two-ply kora, completing the fish hook. The top of the matau has also been bound at two points with a similar two-ply kora that extends out from the hook and moprhs into a much thicker tubular two-ply kora that would have been used to attach the fish hook to a te ao (fishing line). The wood is dark brown in colour and smooth-surfaced with some visible cracks in the curved joint of the branch, and some abrasions on its exterior, including marks on the body where the surface or inner bark has been scraped away.