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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 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.

Complete one-piece bone fishhook. Incurved tip. Knob at head. Bait notch at base.

Complete argillite adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper to poll, which is lightly flaked. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is curved and sharp, heavily chipped.

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 adze. Cross-section is trapezoidal with back narrower than front. The surface is mostly ground, sides bruised, there is a cutting mark down the proper left side. Sides of blade taper towards the poll, no shoulder. The bevel is demarcated by a line, the cutting edge is sharp and curved, lightly chipped.

Complete chisel. Cross-section is roughly oval, but a little asymmetrical with cutting marks down both sides. Bevel is continuous with chisel on both sides, cutting edge is sharp and curved. Surface is mostly ground, with small patch of bruising.

Broken totara tauihu (prow) of waka taua (war canoe). All carving are worn, especially on the proper right. Fretwork carving of two spirals on body, top of spirals broken off. Large human face protruding forwards, tongue protruding with the top half of the face missing. There is piko-o-rauru (double spiral) carving on the cheeks and worn carving on the lips and tongue. The face has been reattached using three metal pins. A full figure lies horizontal at the base of the two vertical spirals, split in two by the spirals. A third face is carved at the rear of the prow. There is worn tuara-kuri (diamond notches) carving on the prow. The proper right lashing board is broken off, with the front-most lashing hole remaining. The proper left lashing board has four drilled holes remaining.

Goose feather and flax kete. Feathers are light brown, light grey, and white in colour. Warps held together using single pair twine. 19 weft rows, 1.5cm apart. Feathers attached to every 6th warp on alternate weft rows (except basal three). Cast on using thrum technique. Cast off from inside by taking warp 1 to back of warp 4, warp 2 to back of warp 5 etc and holding in place with single pair twine. Warps then frayed and trimmed to form fringe on external side. Twisted flax fibre handle on either side, one strand of which has been dyed bright yellow.

Piece of hollow worked bone, filed to a point at one end and roughly worked at the other end.

Complete flax kete with single plaited handle. Natural light yellow colour. Fringe attached with single pair twine along both sides on front and back. Base fringe formed from warps. Extra weft thread added for decoration. Warps held together with single pair twine. Patterned on both sides with alternate rows of loose "ruffled" warps and single crossed thread. Handle attached to each edge, knotted and frayed, with a tassel at each end.

Complete hei tiki. There is a pendant at the proximal end. There are smooth grooves to make the tiki shape, it looks well worn. Two circular eyes, grooves around the neck, arms and legs. Sawn through at arms and legs.