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Chert drill point. Light brown with white inclusions.

Complete sandstone file. Light brown. Surface is ground. Tapered to the distal end.

Complete bone pendant. The proximal end has been notches to create a suspension grip. The poll is worn. The distal end is chipped and blunt.

Complete pounamu pendant. Surface ground with lenticular cross-section. The pendant curves to the proper left, coming to a point. Both front and back have a longitudinal ridge. There is a suspension hole at the proximal end, with a second hole aborted on the proper right back. There is a sawing mark on the proper right back, originating at the point and running up to the curve. The point is chipped and sharp.

Complete pounamu chisel or gouge. Light green with black inclusions. Surface is ground. Tapered at both ends. One end has a triangular bevel one each side, demarcated by lines, and the edge is straight and sharp. The other end has an irregularly-shaped bevel, demarcated by a line on one side, and three sawing marks running from this end to approximately the centre of the gouge.

Mostly complete pounamu chisel, broken at the poll. Dark green. Surface has been ground smooth. Rectangular shape and cross section. Sawing mark on one side edge. Distal edge is straight and sharp, with a straight bevel demarcated by a line on each side.

Complete argillite adze. Cross section is lenticular on blade and square at the butt. The surface is ground with bruising on the poll. There is major differentiation of the butt, with a convex shoulder and the butt coming to a single lug. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and sharp.

Complete adze. Cross-section of blade is trapezoidal, with back narrower than front. The cross-section of the butt is semi-circular, back flattened. Surface is ground on blade, and bruised with some flaking on butt. Major differentiation between butt and blade, with sides and front reduced forming shoulder. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curbed.

Complete kawakawai pounamu pendant. The colour is apple green with black inclusions. The shape is a pointed blade with asymmetric serrated sides. The serrations are blunt. The suspension hole has been drilled from both sides. The point is rounded and blunt.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular, and slightly concave with distal and proximal ends raising up. There is no differentiation between butt and blade. There is a chip at the poll end, where there is a partial perforation. There is a complete perforation on the opposite side of the poll. The cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Complete carving of a mal figure, very large. There is a large projection off the end of the head that is perforated. The face is carved in a full moko that has been filled in black. There is paua shell inlay for the eyes with black, circular pieces of wood for pupils. There is a simple hei tiki carving around the figure's neck with both three-fingered hands resting on his chest. Chipped around feet and attached to a base. The back is flat. The figure is pained red.

Complete mere pounamu. There are five grooves on each side of the knob on the handle (proximal) ends. There are fainter grooves on either side across the perforation, which is offset since the two drill holes were not in line from either side. The distal end is rounded and sharp.

Complete wooden bowl. Oval shaped. Flattened at the bottom. Sides flare out with a pouring spout 28mm wide one end, small perforated knob at other end. Several other perforations and drill marks at rim of knobbed end, as well as a chip that has been broken off and glued back on. Rim is broken on one side.

Small wooden bowl. Oval shaped. Base rounded externally and internally. Flares to rim with sides lower than each end. Undecorated. No handles. Rim broken in parts.

Complete toki poutangata, hafted adze. The haft is finely carved wood in a variety of styles. The distal end of the handle has a two-sided anthropomorphic head, with paua shell inlaid eyes. There is a perforation through the handle between the knob and handle. The handle itself has basically longitudinal carving lines along the length of the handle, with three equally spaced latitudinal lines, and one curved area of carving near the distal end. There is a circular paua shell inlay on one side below the human figure on the heel of the haft. This anthropomorphic figure has legs apart, penis, four toes per feet, bent knees with spiral design on buttocks and shoulders, protruding tongue, paua inlay eyes, face mostly uncarved. The adze itself protrudes through to base of neck, set in triangular shaped slot, with fibre wrapped around the shoulder of the blade and end of the haft. There is another carved human face on the haft underneath the adze, opposite figure previously mentioned, with on

Complete tekoteko of a male figure. Made of heavy wood, and painted a dark red. There is indistinct writing around the forehead. There is a ta moko on the lower portion of the figure's face. The carving on the body is done in the rauponga style. There is a carved projection below the figures feet that is partially broken. There is one large perforation on this projection. The figure is concave at the back, so the arms, buttocks and sides of head project backwards. There is a large hole at the back of the head, and four smaller holes on the back of the arms, two on each side.

Vessel decorated with snake

Complete basalt adze. Cross-section is triangular on butt and upper blade, with apex to the top. Towards the distal end, the apex flattens making the cross-section trapezoidal, with the front narrower than the back. Major differentiation between butt and blade, front reduced forming small shoulder. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curved, slightly curved.

Complete bone pendant. The head of the pendant has a perforation hole drilled from both sides. The edge of the head has been flattened. The bone has been sharpened to a blunt point.