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Rectangular slab of worked bone with a curved, bevelled edge. Surface around the edge is smooth with polishing marks evident.

Partially manufactured hook

Drilled fishhook tab

Drilled fishhook tab

Complete pendant made from a whale tooth. Curved to a point at the distal end. Surface is worn and in poor condition. Proximal end is squared off with a suspension hole at one corner, drilled from both sides. Evidence of broken projections running along the external edge.

Mostly complete patu paraoa, broken at the butt and heavily weathered on the blade edges and back side. Front surface is smooth. Butt is broken with a projection remaining on one side, possibly the remains of a broken perforation. Pronounced shoulders where the handle meets the blade. Decorative ridges and grooves at the proximal end of the blade. There is a projection on the proper right side with a small perforation drilled from both sides; left side also appears to have had a similar projection which has broken off.

Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, external barb. From this barb the hook turns at a right angle inwards. Above this barb, the tip is serrated and below the barb there are notches down to the base. It has an internal inverted notch in the middle of the point.

Fishhook point is complete. It is curved, with a serrated external edge of the tip.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. It has a serrated external edge. There is one external barb near the tip.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. It has a serrated external edge.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. External edge is serrated, and there is one external barb near the tip.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. External edge is serrated. There is one external barb near the tip, and another between the tip and base.

Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, internal barb above which the point turns inward. The section above the barb to the tip is serrated and below the barb to the base there are serrations going down until a barb in the middle of the point and notches below this second, smaller barb.

Fishhook point is complete and straight. The external edge is serrated from the tip to near the base. The internal edge of the tip is also serrated. There is an internal barb at the tip. There are two notches near the base.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. External edge is serrated. There is one external barb near the tip, and another between the tip and base.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. External edge is serrated. There is one external barb near the tip.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. The external edge of the tip is serrated. There is a knob at the intersection of the tip and base, and a narrowing of the base.

Complete dog jaw fishhook. Hook bends naturally with the jawline and has been sharpened to a point.

Fishhook point is complete and curved. The external edge of the tip is serrated. There is a bait knob at the intersection of the tip and base.