Matau (fish hook)

The matau was an efficient design of fish hook, leading to it being reproduced in large numbers.

Developed as part of the art project series "Ghosts in the form of gifts" commissioned by Massey University Wellington, New Zealand in 2009.

Project page: http://bronwyn.co.nz/projects/gifts/

The series won the 2010 Award for Open Source in the Arts (NZ)

Ghosts in the form of gifts is a series of objects that are replicas of artifacts imagined as lost, hidden or misregistered during the M