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Complete pounamu pendant. Part totoweka and part kahurangi variety. Light green and light brown with white inclusions, high translucency. Surface is polished. Rounded edges. Teardrop-shaped. Tapered toward the proximal end, with a suspension hole.

Complete mere pounamu. Inaka section crosses diagonally from one side to the other on blade with kahurangi pounamu extending to proximal end. Dark green, mid-yellow, and black in colour. Surface is polished. Six grooves at butt with perforated hole drilled from both sides. Both edges of hole slightly inset. String looped through hole and tied.

Pounamu/nephrite pendant. Kahurangi variety, bright green with light brown inclusions. Surface has been ground. Proximal end is tapered and straight. Below the proximal end, pendant widens at "shoulders" and is curved in a crescent shape. Distal end is rounded.

Complete pounamu pendant. Mid-green kahurangi variety with high translucency and chatoyant band running diagonally across the centre. Cross section is lenticular. Wide, rounded distal edge. Proximal end has been broken and reworked, with a suspension hole drilled from both sides.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is mostly ground. PR side has a line of natural roughness which is visible from the front. Poll also has a patch of roughness. No differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is continuous with blade, blade is sharp and curved.

Mid-green kahurangi pounamu pendant. Surface has been ground smooth. Roughly circular shape with a lenticular cross section. Proximal end has a suspension hole drilled from both sides and a notch on one side edge, which may represent a bird or other animal head. Partial straight sawing mark and small indentation on one side and a large worked indentation/reduction on the other side. Serrations along two side edges, about halfway down the pendant.

Piece of worked nephrite/pounamu, possibly a broken pendant. Mid green kahurangi variety with high translucency. Surface is ground smooth. Three projections remaining, two of which are broken at the ends and the other is rounded. Edges are curved and polished.

Piece of worked pounamu, broken at one end, possibly a pendant. Mid-green kahurangi variety with high translucency. Surface is ground smooth. One side edge is straight with a sawing mark and the other side edge is curved. Remaining end is triangular, tapering to a dull point.

Complete greenstone drill point. Triangular cross-section. The surface is ground with small flake scars on the bevel and butt ends. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. There is a long oval groove on one side just above the drill point.

Complete pounamu pendant. Dark green kahurangi variety with white flaws and some feather flakes. Circular with a ground surface and edges. Suspension hole drilled from both sides at the proximal end.