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Complete adze. Poll is plano-convex (back flattened) and blade is trapezoidal with front narrower than back. Surface is ground around lower blade, bruised everywhere else. Butt has major differentiation; front has been clearly reduced and front shoulder is raised. Bevel is demarcated by a curved line running from corner to corner. Cutting edge is straight, smooth and sharp. GLAM ADZE

Complete adze Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, though sides taper towards poll. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Chipped on proper left and proper right.

Complete waka huia. Square in cross-section. Decorated on lid in carved groove and dot motif worked in three sections into complex patterns. The carving patterns differ on both long sides. The base has the groove and dot pattern in swirling pattern that forms two highly stylised faces with (not original) inlay paua shell eyes. The handles are elongated laterally and decorated with an abstract pattern. They are perforated vertically for suspension cord. On one end of the lid there is a centred, wide and flat tongue that has a matching slot. There is a small chip in the corner on this end of the lid. On the other end of the lid, the tongue is off-centre and narrower, with a matching slot. Modern fibre through handle perforations for suspension.

Complete kahu huruhuru, with kiwi and pheasant feathers. Excepting borders, the main body of the cloak is covered with kiwi feather, with a pheasant feather border with distinct blue patch off-centre on left and right edges. Two pair twine, black twine in selvages. Shaped in centre and towards bottom. Manufactured using whatu aho rua (single-pair weft-twining) technique. On the back side, there are five small net bags evenly spaced in two rows - three along the mid-line and two nearer the bottom edge. The left and right edges are multi-strand twists of red, black and undyed string.

Complete Rectangular cross-section at bevel, square at butt Bruised surface with ground area at end of bevel on front and back. The front and sides are reduced at the butt with rounding off of the corners at the shoulder. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The sharp edges at the side of the bevel round off as they continue up the blade. Rounded poll.

Complete matarau (eel spear). Wooden handle worked to a sharp point at both ends. Six other prongs lashed to one end of the handle with two metal braces and muka fibre.

Complete matarau (eel spear). Wooden handle worked to a sharp point at one end. Six other prongs lashed to the point of the handle with vines and muka fibre.

Wooden kumete. Surface is rough with cracks throughout. Elongated oval in shape. Base is flat and squared both internally and externally. Sides are straight and slant outward internally at each end. One end has a broken knobbed projection for handle. Rim is flattened at each end, but broken and cracked on the sides.

Complete hinaki (eel trap), made from vine. Eel funnel at one end with plaited internal end. Elongated, bulbous body, tapered to another opening at the other end (without a lid or funnel). Plaited handle attached below the opening.

Model of a mokihi, created by binding bundles of bulrush with flax. The prow is double ended, with the top binding of bulrush ending approximately 19cm before the lower prow.

Complete pōhā used for preserving tītī, consisting of a kelp bag inside of a flax kete with a bark liner. Kete is made in an under-one, over-one pattern, and plaited around the top edge. Long strips of bark, probably totara, cover the kelp bag, and are lashed together with strips of flax, and tied together tightly at the top.

Complete cord drill made of wood with lashings of string and muka cord and a chalcedony drill point. Drill consists of a central spindle, a circular whirl, and four centre supports. The surfaces have been worked smooth. Perforated near the proximal end of the spindle. Distal end is notched on one side, and the chalcedony drill point is lashed to it with string.

Complete kahawai hook. Wooden shank with two knobs at head and large knob at base. White iridescent shell. Curved bone point with internal barb. European-style twisted cord and lashings.

Complete kahawai lure. Curved bone shaft with paua shell inlay. Barbed bone fishhook point lashed to base with muka. Twisted muka cord at head.

Complete wahaika rakau. It has a circular perforation just below the head. There is whakairo on the head in the shape of a head with shell inlays for the eyes. There is also whakairo in circular shapes on the back and front of the body, which a human form on one side, also with shell inlays for the eyes. It is in good condition, there is minor chipping of the tip of the hook.

Complete kotiate made of wood. Geometric carvings and two perforations on blade. Face carving on butt of handle with a perforation at base of head.

Complete hafted adze Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground. Butt not visible due to haft Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and curved. Hafted adze. Adze is connected to highly carved, dark brown, wooden (T shaped) haft. Decorated end (opposite adze) has carved Maori figure with paua shell eyes. Wood has been cut into haft shape. Adze connected to haft by twine.

Broken patu onewa, only butt remaining. Drilling marks forming an hourglass shape on the broken end, where a perforation once was. Ornamental grooves around the top. Cross-section is oval.

Fragment of patu onewa; lower handle and upper blade remaining. Surface is ground.

Mostly complete pounamu pendant, broken at the suspension hole (drilled from both sides). Light green in colour. Surface is ground. Shaped like an elongated adze. Tapered at the proximal end. Sawing marks on each side edge. Straight bevel demarcated by a line. Distal edge is curved and sharp.