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Bone curved fishhook point. Lower remaining. Tip broken off.

Complete pounamu pendant. Dark green tangiwai variety. Chatoyant with high translucency. Surface is ground. Cross section is lenticular. Tapered and rounded at each end. Suspension hole drilled from both sides at proximal end.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Mid green, light green, mid brown, light brown. Cross-section is rectangular. Back of adze is concave. Surface is ground, with some flaking on back edges and on poll, some bruising on bevel. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll and front slopes down towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curved, large chip missing from proper right side of cutting edge. Cutting edge is narrower than widest point of blade.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, butt end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, butt end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Large adze roughout. Light brown and dark brown stone with red patches. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is roughly flaked. There is a reduction in the stone on the back of the adze halfway up the blade. The stone then tapers in towards the poll. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade on the front. The bevel is a severe slope demarcated by an irregular ridge. The cutting edge is oblique, irregular and blunt.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, butt end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Fragment of chisel or gouge, blade end.

Stone patu, black colouration, hole at handle end with 2-ply twisted twine tied through as a handle. Five incised lines at end of handle. Complete patu onewa, with drill perforation and fibre cord tau. Curved reke on the butt. Minor chipping on edge of blade on both sides. Blade smooth and highly polished.

Complete teka (footrest) for a kō (digging stick). Single piece of mid brown wood, with step and base at a 90-degree angle from each other. Step is sawn flat at the top end and base tapers to the bottom end, with a chip missing from the edge. Base has a projection with a perforation for lashing. Surface is smooth with chisel marks evident.

Broken patu paraoa, butt of handle remaining. Bone is worn and porous.

Shark tooth pendant with suspension hole at root. Red sealing wax on root, some of which has chipped away.