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Complete adze. Pounamu. Light green, mid green. Cross-section is lenticular. Surfaces of front lower blade and bevel are ground, flaked on back and front butt. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by surface change from ground to flaked. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Chipped on proper left side of cutting edge.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Light green, dark green. Cross-section is oval. Surface of lower blade is ground, becoming bruised and flaked towards butt. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by surface change from ground to bruised. Cutting edge is sharp and curved, small chip on proper right side of cutting edge.

Relief of the pharaoh Akhenaten. Granite building fragment from his capital.

Broken adze (portion of lower blade remaining). Stone. Black with white flecks. Cross-section is trapezoidal, with back narrower than front. Surface is ground, patches of lichen on broken edge. Butt not present. Bevel is concave, cutting edge is sharp and straight, large fragment from proper left missing. Southland written on front.

Complete adze. Rectangular at poll, asymmetrical at blade. The surface is ground with flaking on the left side proper, and some bruising on the right side and the poll. Butt undifferentiated. The bevel is demarcated by a ridge, and is slightly curved down to the cutting edge. The cutting edge is smooth, sharp and slightly curved.

Complete pounamu pendant. Silvery white, with a small amount of green visible around suspension hole, side edges, and one side of the distal end. Surface has been ground. Cross section is lenticular. Proximal end is squared off, with a suspension hole drilled from both sides. Two knobs, one on each side of the proximal end. Serrations along both side edges, running the entire length of the pendant. Curved to one side and tapered to a dull point on the distal end. Chip missing out of external side of the curve.

Complete roughout. Pounamu. Light green, mid green, silver. Cross-section is oval. Surface is partially ground on sides and back, bruised elsewhere. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge either unworked or broken.

Complete pounamu drill point. The cross section is an oval. The surface is ground with two sawing marks on opposite sides. The point is chipped.

Complete adze. Speckled green stone. The cross-section is trapezoidal with the back narrower than the front. The surface is mostly ground, with bruising on the front of the butt and some flake scars. The difference in surface and a reduction in the stone distinguishes the butt from the blade. The bevel is smooth and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and sharp.

Complete adze. Greenstone. The cross-section is rectangular. The surface is flaked and bruised, and there is a groove in the surface near the top of the back. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade, the blade tapers in towards the poll. The bevel is roughly indicated by a slightly more polished surface. The cutting edge is sharp.

Complete adze Cross-section is oval. Surface of blade is ground, surface of butt and sides are bruised. No differentiation between butt and blade. Sides taper towards poll. Bevel is continuous with blade. Blade is sharp and curved.