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Complete pounamu pendant. Attached to pounamu toggle D40.539 by a brown three-play rope. Dark green bowenite/tangiwai variety, chatoyant and translucent. Surface is ground. Cross section is lenticular. Seven notches on the proximal edge and a suspension hole drilled from both sides. One side edge is straight, and the other is curved; somewhat squared off at the distal end. Pendant is bevelled on both sides.

Pounamu toggle. Attached to D40.538 by a brown three-ply rope. Light green tahutahi variety; source believed to be Cascade Plateau area. Surface is ground. Triangular shape. Perforation through the centre of the toggle, drilled from both sides. One side has two bevels running lengthwise, demarcated by lines.

Wooden carved wheku/koruru. Painted dark red and carved with a rauponga (grooves and notches) pattern around the figure's mouth, nostrils, and top of the forehead. Paua shell inlaid into slanted eyes. Distal end comes to a point, indicating a protruding tongue; five teeth depicted. Two perforations at the mouth. Back side has a piece of wood protruding as well as two metal hooks tied with wire for suspension.

Large piece of worked wood with two prongs, use unclear. Surface is rough and cracked, with natural knots still visible.

Complete hoe (paddle). The blade is broken with a crack running approximately half way up the blade. There is chipping along the tip. The shaft tapers in at the throat and has been repaired at this taper with opaque glue. The shaft also tapers in at the grip. There is a large chip broken off the shaft, originating at the grip.

Broken adze haft, distal end remaining. Wood is cracked and dessicated. Platform at distal end is carved at a slant to the handle.

Mussel dredge handle, consisting of a long, slightly curved pole with a hook-like projection at one end for attaching the dredge.

Complete patu aruhe (fern root beater). Cracks extend from shoulder to blade edge on both sides. Burnt mark on front and on butt of handle. Chip out of front right side of blade. Rounded head with lenticular cross-section. Long smooth handle with round cross-section.

Long piece of worked wood. Surface is worked smooth. Piece is relatively thing and narrow. One end has a curved projection with an incomplete perforation (chisel marks evident).

Large piece of worked wood. Surface is worked smooth but some chisel marks evident. Slightly concave, with a ridge running the length of one side. Two perforations near one edge.

Brown Kete Muka possibly dyed using tanekaha bark and a white ash mordant. Short fringe, made with double pair twining, attached to side edges and base on front and back. Warps held together with double pair twining. Patterned in regular manner. Alternate rows of cross stitch (based on eight warp unit) and alternate verticle stripes natural and brown. No handles.

Broken paepae (outer threshold of pataka). Made of dark wood, possibly stained. There is one complete male figure in profile on the lower portion of the paepae, head is horizontal. Above this figure on the proper right side there is a leg of a second figure, the rest of which does not remain. These details are carved in taratara a kae style. There are three large perforations on the proper left side, and two smaller perforations on the proper right side. There is a projection on the bottom of the paepae on the proper right side.

Complete flax kete with plaited handle. Woven in a twilled over-one, under-one pattern with unscraped flax. Natural mid-yellow colour with some mid-red and mid-brown in handle. Internal base commencement; cast off with internal horizontal plait. Top edge serrated in large triangular shape. Patterned at the base with three horizontal double rows of holes, created by changing the direction of individual flax strands.

Dark wooden tewhatewha. Two perforations on the blade. Chips broken off of proximal end. Handle broadens about halfway down. Tapers at the base, with a gold metal hooped nail at the end.

Wooden adze haft. Handle is round in cross section. Platform on the distal end, at an angle from the handle. Notch at the end for lashing. Twisted fibre lashings on the handle and part of the platform.

Complete pouwhenua. Light brown wooden surface is undecorated, smooth, and polished. Pointed at proximal end. Relatively narrow blade, flattened with rounded edge.

Complete maul (mallet) with handle - round in cross section. Maul head has deep recession, approximately 11x5x4.5cm deep with lip flush with handle. There is a deeper perforation in the bottom of this recession. On the outer sides of the maul head there are six longitudinal and parallel grooves along three sides of head. Burnt and charred in places on head. The handle is round and smooth, with a slight knob at the proximal end.

Frament of maro. The fibre is woven together, with two whenu (strands) forming diagonal ornamental lines.

Complete fishing line and sinker. The line is plaited flax bound with unworked flax. The sinker is complete, with a transverse lashing mark around the circumference. The connecting rod is a naturally formed Y section, with flax bound to each of the lengths of wood.