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Broken fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone. Both ends broken at the tips.

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

Broken needle, shaft remaining, broken at both ends.

Complete tokotoko. Mid-brown wood. Carved with two full-length figures and rauponga (ridge and notch) pattern in a variety of directions and styles. Paua shell inlay in eyes and as features of rauponga pattern (three missing). Top figure has a realistic face, with a full moko, holding a patu in one hand. Lower figure has a more stylized, traditional face with slanted eyes and wide mouth. Handle and distal end are uncarved.

A small konae, a two cornered bag made with an even number of whenu (strands) from a folded square base. This Konae is woven from Houhere and completed with an external whiri and has then been folded internally on itself.

Kete muka woven using whatu aho patahi (single-pair weft-twining). Woven from top to bottom. Kaupapa (body) decorated with mawhitiwhiti (woven cross stitch) patterns. X2 Three ply muka braids with tassels have been introduced as handles.

Complete fish gorge. Surface is polished. Tapered to a dull point at each end.

Broken straight fishhook point , all remaining but fragment of base. Internal barb at point.

Large taha huahua (calabash container) consisting of a gourd inside a woven kete and a wooden frame. Gourd is dark brown/dark orange, with the top cut off to create a wide opening. There are four perforations around the rim of the gourd opening (only one is intact), used for fitting a tuki (wooden mouthpiece). Kete is woven in a under-one, over-one plait, using alternating black and natural unscraped flax. A plaited muka cord is tied around the kete opening, forming a series of loops and lashings around the wooden frame, as well as creating a handle. The wooden frame consists of two hoops around the kete and four legs, which rest diagonally to the calabash.

Fishhook point fragment, curved with base broken.

Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notch at base. Serrations along external side and on barb. Burnt.

Complete straight fishhook point. Small internal barb and external barb. Notch at base on external surface.

Mostly complete shark tooth pendant, broken on one side of the root at the suspension hole. Another complete suspension hole on the other side of the root. Natural serrations on both sides of the tooth to the tip.

Complete bone pendant with suspension hole at the proximal end, slightly curved to a dull point at the distal end.

Complete fishhook point, curved with internal barb and notches on external side of base.

Middle piece.

Middle piece.

Broken fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook.

Centre piece of fishhook tab.

Middle piece.