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Dog tooth pendant

Incomplete straight fishhook point. Very tip of fishhook is missing. 3 distinct notches are present at base portion.

Curved fishhook point fragment, base broken, point and tip present. Internal barb and tip of point.

Broken curved fishhook point fragment, with most remaining except tip and base. Serrations along external edge.

Curved bone pendant, mostly complete except for small piece broken off of suspension hole. Has been previously broken on the upper portion and glued back together.

Complete waka huia. Square in cross-section. Decorated on lid in carved groove and dot motif worked in three sections into complex patterns. The carving patterns differ on both long sides. The base has the groove and dot pattern in swirling pattern that forms two highly stylised faces with (not original) inlay paua shell eyes. The handles are elongated laterally and decorated with an abstract pattern. They are perforated vertically for suspension cord. On one end of the lid there is a centred, wide and flat tongue that has a matching slot. There is a small chip in the corner on this end of the lid. On the other end of the lid, the tongue is off-centre and narrower, with a matching slot. Modern fibre through handle perforations for suspension.

Complete shark's tooth pendant. Two complete suspension holes at the root. Naturally-occurring serrations along the sides from the gum line to the tip.

Partially manufactured hook

Rourou (food bowl). Woven with twelve whenu (strands) of harakeke (flax) from the centre outwards in a takitahi pattern. Completed with a whiri (braid) tied with a piece of flax that is looped through the basket and knotted into a handle. Rourou were frequently constructed as single or limited use items as they were quick and easy to weave.

Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a small circular eye at the proximal end. Thickness reduced, but width increased at proximal end.

Broken needle, shaft and distal end remaining. Distal end is sharp. Broken at eye, thickness reduced at proximal end.

Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external lower side.

Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb near tip.

Broken, fishhook point fragment with the tip missing. The upper point is serrated on the exterior side.

Broken fishhook point, base and mid point remaining, tip not present.

Complete kahu huruhuru, with kiwi and pheasant feathers. Excepting borders, the main body of the cloak is covered with kiwi feather, with a pheasant feather border with distinct blue patch off-centre on left and right edges. Two pair twine, black twine in selvages. Shaped in centre and towards bottom. Manufactured using whatu aho rua (single-pair weft-twining) technique. On the back side, there are five small net bags evenly spaced in two rows - three along the mid-line and two nearer the bottom edge. The left and right edges are multi-strand twists of red, black and undyed string.

Complete bird spear point. Six barbs run the length of the shaft.

Mostly complete threader, broken around the proximal end. There are two striations in the surface at the proximal end.

Complete fish gorge. Small notch on one side at one end.