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Broken basalt adze, blade remaining in two pieces. Dark grey in colour. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground on front and back, with bruising and flaking along sides. Sides of blade taper towards broken edge. Proper left side of cutting edge remaining, sharp and curved. Bevel is continuous with blade.

Broken adze, fragment of blade remaining. Dark grey in colour. Surface of unbroken edges are ground.

Roughout. Basalt. Light grey. Cross-section is semi-circular, with front flattened. Surface is ground on front, flaked on bottom. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. End with bevel is indeterminable. "Papanui Inlet" written on front.

Roughout. Basalt. Light grey. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Surface is flaked. Major differentiation between butt and blade, reduction on back and sides taper towards pool. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and straight, both unfinished.

Broken adze, fragment of cutting edge remaining. Surface is ground, with some bruising. What remains of cutting edge is sharped and curved.

Broken adze, fragment of cutting edge remaining. Surface is ground, with some bruising. Bevel is demarcated from blade by a line. What remains of cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Complete sinker with a faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with a faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete obsidian blade. Black in colour. Flake scars on dorsal surface.

Obsidian flake. Black in colour.

Complete patu onewa. Surface is ground smooth. Knob at the butt, with a rounded proximal edge. Decorative incised marks on the proximal edge and on either side of the knob. There is a perforation at the centre of the knob, drilled from both sides. Relatively narrow blade, with a raised and incised decoration in the centre, possibly indicating a mouth and tongue.

broken, cutting edge and bevel present. probably rectangular. The surface is ground. The butt is missing. The bevel is flat, but the blade is not present. The cutting edge is oblique, sharp but chipped.

Complete adze. Basalt. Black. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground on lower blade, bruised on sides and butt. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, back reduced after bevel, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line, butt reduces after. Cutting edge is sharp, curved, heavily chipped. "MB" written on back.

Complete patu onewa, with no tau. Drill perforation present. Butt has ornamental grooves across the top and blade has a chip on both edges. There is minor scratching on the blade.

Complete adze. Basalt. Black. Cross-section of blade is rectangular, cross-section of butt is semi-circular, back flattened. Surface of front blade (and top half of sides) and lower back blade ground, back is flaked and bruised, front butt is bruised, poll is flaked. Major differentiation between butt and blade, front and sides reduced (proper right side reduced slightly more). Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and curved.

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