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Broken stone blade, medial proportion remaining. Light grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins.

Complete adze. Black stone. Thin rectangular cross-section. The surface is mostly ground with some flake scars. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The bevel is indicated by a slight angle in the stone on one side of the blade. The cutting edge is flaked, straight and blunt.

Piece of worked pounamu, tapered at one end. Light green and grey in colour. Surface is bruised and flaked.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove

Broken adze (cutting edge remaining). Stone. Dark grey. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground. Butt not present. Cutting edge is sharp and curved, heavily chipped. Wakapatu written on back.

Broken shank, fragment of head remaining, knobs.

Adze roughout. Black stone. Surface is flaked. Cross-section is trapezoidal, with the back narrower than the front. No differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is demarcated by an irregular ridge. Cutting edge is curved and flaked. "McClennan's Southland." inscription.

Complete Oval cross-section Bruised surface with flake scars on bevel and butt, visible crack at mend The front and sides of the butt are slightly reduced above the shoulders and widen again at the rounded poll. The bevel is continuous with the blade but appears to be a darker colour than the blade. The cutting edge is curved and asymmetrical with large flake scars The butt of the adze had been broken off and has been glued back on the blade. Each piece still has a part number written on it (butt D33.1984 a and blade D33.1984 b)

Complete adze. Mid grey stone. The cross-section is trapezoidal with the back narrower than the front. The surface is mostly bruised, with flake scars on the sides and the butt. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The sides of the blade taper in towards the poll. The bevel is smooth and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and asymmetrical with a flake scar on the front.

Complete unfinished adze. Grey stone. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is bruised with some flake scars and ground areas on the lower blade. There is a reduction in the stone on the sides of the base of the butt. The poll is oblique and irregular. The bevel is smooth and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and chipped.

Roughout adze. Black stone. Oval cross-section. The surface is roughly flaked with smooth areas on the blade. There is no distinction between the blade and the butt. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp with a chip on the proper left.

Complete adze. Cross-section is oval Surface is ground. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, front and sides slightly reduced to form ridge and shoulder. Bevel is continuous with blade, blade is sharp and curved. Overall shape of adze is concave.

Complete patu paraoa with drilled perforation on butt. Butt portion appears curved in shape and has carved (reke) rounded grooves. Surface of blade has cracks running vertically down the blade, with cuts and scratching visible. Most if not all of the cut markings are running horizontally or on an angle.

Incomplete repaired adze, part of the bevel is missing. Dark grey stone. Oval cross-section. The surface is bruised and flaked. The adze has multiple breaks across its width that have been imprecisely glued together. Excess glue is visible on some of the joins. What is left of the bevel on the proper left is smooth and continuous with the blade. The proper right of the bevel is missing. A piece of paper is adhered to the front and reads: "Found at E. end of Wakapatu B. as[crossed out] in fragments"

Complete adze. Light brown stone. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is ground and bruised around the butt. There is a reduction in the stone on the front and proper left side of the butt. The bevel is smooth and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is blunt and comes to a point with flake scars on the left and right.

Complete adze. Dark grey stone. Trapezoidal cross-section with the back narrower than the front. The surface is mostly bruised with smooth areas at each end. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade, but the front and back of the butt taper in to meet at a curved blunt edge. The bevel is sharply angled and demarcated from the blade by a curved ridge, and has a straight cutting edge.

Complete adze. Black stone. Trapezoidal cross-section with the back narrower than the front. The surface is mostly bruised, with ground areas on the blade and flake scars on the poll and cutting edge. There is a curved shoulder on the front of the blade. The stone is reduced on the front of the butt. The bevel is bruised and demarcated from the blade by a straight line. The cutting edge is flaked and chipped. There is staining from a dried liquid on the front proper left, the left side and the back proper left of the blade.