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Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground, with areas of natural roughness. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, tapering towards poll - more heavily tapered on proper right side. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and straight. Chipped on proper left side.

Broken adze. Not enough remaining to tell cross-section of whole adze. Surface is ground Very little of butt remaining, but looks undifferentiated between butt and blade. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular, with rounded back. Surface is ground on front and sides, flaked on back. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. Sides taper towards poll. Front slightly raised. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and straight.

Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, no eye.

Complete straight fishhook point, with internal barb at tip, and external notches at base.

Partially manufactured fishhook. Indentation in centre, rounded on one end.

Small fragment of broken and split bone, worked to a blunt point at one end.

Broken one-piece fishhook, base and lower side remaining. Serrations on external side of fragment.

Complete bone threader. Manufactured from a thick piece of bone.

Complete fish gorge.

Piece of worked stone, broken at each end. Cream coloured. Surface is polished. Cross section is irregular. Curved and tapered at one end.

Complete stone file, tapered to a dull point at one end. Ovoid cross section. Light red and light brown in colour.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface of front is ground, surface of sides and back butt bruised with some flaking on front. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, proper right side on back tapered. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Large chip on proper right side. On front; Otago.

Complete tatua. Plaited flax man's war belt. Natural colouration. Made in one piece, with sides folded over and then folded over longitudinally - unstitched long the bottom edge. Plaited in over two, under two twill with loose flax strands from commencement and finish lying loosely inside belt. Darker dyed three ply plaited fibre braid attached to each end.

Complete wahaika made of wood. Notch on one side of blade. Carved figure protruding from upper blade, creating two perforations. Figure has carved tattoo marks on body. Carved face on butt, with one perforation at the base of the head and another perforation created from its open mouth.

Complete pae hamuti, used as a grip to balance while squatting over a latrine. This piece has been identified as a forgery and not of authentic Maori origin. Dark brown in colour. A human head figure is carved at each end; one is much larger than the other and has paua shell inlays in eyes. The head has been broken at the mouth and repaired. The body of the larger figure is carved behind the head, with three toes and three fingers and spiral decoration on the shoulders and buttocks. The middle of the handle is uncarved and smooth. There is a rectangular reduction on the bar (at the end closest to the larger carved head), with a rectangular perforation in the centre for lashing.

Complete kahu huruhuru, with peacock, chicken and turkey feathers. There are peacock feathers in a square in centre of the cloak, with wool borders approximately 8cm wide of blue, red and black. Along the top there are four ties using the same wool. One pair of ties are short, and set back from the edge by approximately 10cm, there is a longer pair of ties at each corner. Manufactured using a whatu aho patihi technique (single pair twining). The 1first whenu are made with two threads; one blue wool and one undyed flax.

Complete kahu huruhuru with black, white and reddish fowl feathers. Feathers are in roughly parallel, but not completely straight, lines. There is some grey wool in the weaving. There is a small tear along the bottom edge. The side is edged with red wool, the left with undyed wool. Manufactured using whatu aho rua technique (two-pair weft-twining). The upper edge is a thick braid.

Complete adze. Dark grey stone. Surface is ground and bruised. Cross-section is rectangular. Major differentiation between butt and blade; sides reduced to form shoulders. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp on proper right side and broken off from mid-blade to proper left side. "Dunedin?" inscription

Complete kawakawa pounamu ear pendant. Shape is long cylinder with rounded, blunt distal end. Surface is ground. Suspension hole at proximal end. Poll of proximal flattened. Light flaking at the proximal end. There are light green inclusions throughout the pendant.