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Complete adze. Quadrangular at poll, rectangular at blade. Surface is ground with bruising around edges and poll. Butt undifferentiated, sides taper to poll. Bevel is demarcated by a curved line. Cutting edge is rounded and sharp, with minor chipping.

Complete pounamu gouge. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground, with flaking at the poll and cutting edge. The bevel is demarcated by straight lines. The cutting edge is chipped off.

Broken pounamu gouge, poll missing. The cross section is an oval. The surface is ground with flaking on the break and back. The bevel is demarcated by a curved line and concave wearing. The cutting edge is straight and blunt with chipping.

Complete pounamu gouge. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with flaking on the poll. The bevel is demarcated by a curved line. The cutting edge is straight and blunt.

Complete adze Cross-section is trapezoidal Surface is ground with some flaking on proper right side Minor differentiation between butt and blade, sides are tapered towards the poll Bevel is demarcated by a straight line. Cutting edge is curved and sharp

Complete pounamu chisel. The cross section is a parallelogram. The surface is ground, with bruising on the front and poll. There are large sawing marks on the proper right. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is straight and blunt.

Incomplete greenstone gouge, butt end absent. Circular cross-section. The surface is ground with flaking at the broken end. The bevel is oval and demarcated by a curved line. The cutting edge is curved and sharp.

Broken pounamu chisel, one side of blade remaining. Surface is ground on remaining side and bruised on the broken side. Dark green in colour. Cross section is rectangular. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is straight and sharp.

Complete pounamu pendant. Dark green and brown totoweka variety, low heat treated. Rounded projection, notched on the sides for suspension. One side edge is straight and the other is curved at an angle. Distal end comes to a point.

Broken pounamu adze lower blade only Cross-section is rectangle The surface is ground with bruising and flaking on proper right. Bevel is demarcated by a curved ridge. The cutting edge is curved, blunt and chipped.

Complete pounamu drill point. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground, with flaking at the poll. There is a sawing edge originating at the poll. The point is chipped and sharp.

Broken pounamu chisel, blade remaining. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is bruised and flaking. The bevel is demarcated by a curved line. The cutting edge is chipped.

Complete pounamu chisel. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is ground with flaking on the back and poll. The blade is demarcated on the front by two diagonal line. The bevel is demarcated by a diagonal line. The cutting edge is straight and blunt.

Complete pounamu gouge. The cross section is lenticular. The surface is ground with flaking on the poll and cutting edge. The bevel is demarcated by a curved line. The cutting edge is straight and sharp, with chipping.

Incomplete adze. Lenticular Surface is bruised and flaked. Butt undifferentiated and heavily flaked away. Bevel and cutting edge not present - have been chipped off.

Incomplete adze Quadrangular Surface is bruised and flaked. Butt present and appears tapered, differentiation unknown as break occurs before shoulder. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Complete pounamu chisel. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground, with flaking on the proper left side and at the proper left corner of the cutting edge. Both ends of the chisel are worked to a cutting edge. The bevel at the chipped end is demarcated by a curved line. Both cutting edges are straight and blunt.

Complete pounamu pendant. Light green inanga variety. Medium translucency with white inclusions. Oval cross section. Surface is polished. Suspension hole drilled from both sides at the proximal end. Proximal edge is rounded. Tapered to a point at the distal end.