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Complete adze. Asymmetrical Surface is ground with heavy flaking around butt and poll. Butt undifferentiated. Bevel is demarcated by a straight line across centre of blade. Cutting edge is sharp and straight with minor chipping.

Complete adze. The cross section is asymmetrical: wedge shaped with the proper right side thinner than the left. The surface is predominantly bruised. The bevel and the front of the cutting edge are partially ground. The butt is undifferentiated. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and sharp.

Complete adze. Grey stone. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground and bruised. Sides are slightly reduced to form shoulders. Bevel is demarcated by a change in surface from ground to bruised. Cutting edge is straight and sharp with a flake missing from the proper left side. "Waik." and "Waikouaiti" inscriptions.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove and bruising at both ends.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove and bruising at both ends.

Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete pounamu hei matau pendant. Mid-green with light brown and light green inclusions. Surface is ground. Head has one complete suspension hole, drilled mostly from one side, and one incomplete suspension hole, broken at the proximal end. There is an external knob at the head. The point is rounded and double-sided, with an incurved tip on one side edge and a knob on the external side edge.

Mid-green kahurangi pounamu pendant. Surface has been ground smooth. Roughly circular shape with a lenticular cross section. Proximal end has a suspension hole drilled from both sides and a notch on one side edge, which may represent a bird or other animal head. Partial straight sawing mark and small indentation on one side and a large worked indentation/reduction on the other side. Serrations along two side edges, about halfway down the pendant.

Broken pendant, distal portion remaining. At the broken proximal end there is a partial perforation. There is a large sawing mark down one side. The distal end of the pendant comes to a point. The surface is mostly ground, with small areas of bruising.

Complete greenstone gouge. Cross-section is circular. Poll end is naturally rough, rest of surface is ground. Slight sawing mark on one side. Bevel is demarcated by a line, and the bevel is deeply concave. Cutting edge is broken.

Complete pounamu chisel. Light green in colour. Surface is ground on the blade and bruised at the butt. Reduced to form shoulders at the butt. Cutting edge is straight and sharp with a bevel demarcated by a line.

Complete adze. The cross section is asymmetrical. The proper left side is trapezoidal with the back narrower than the front. The proper right side is rectangular. The surface is predominantly ground with some bruising on the sides of the front and flaking along the sides. The butt is undifferentiated. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is straight and sharp.

Complete adze. Rectangular Surface is ground, with flaking and bruising around poll, butt and edges. Butt has minor differentiation, sides have been reduced, and front left side proper shoulder has been raised. Bevel demarcated by curved line running from corner to corner and tapering down to cutting edge. Cutting edge is sharp, smooth and very slightly rounded.