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Complete adze. Light green pounamu. Surface is ground and bruised. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Reduction on the front of blade, running at an angle from the proper left shoulder to the poll on the proper right side. Proper left side of the butt is also angled tapered toward the poll. Proper right side of the adze is reduced from the poll to the bevel on the proper right side. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is oblique and sharp, with a flake missing from proper right side. "Akaroa." inscription on front.

Complete adze. Black stone. Surface is ground. Cross-section is rectangular. No differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is curved and sharp but chipped on proper left side. "Akaroa." inscription on front and back.

Complete adze. Black stone. Surface is ground. Cross-section is lenticular. Sides of the butt are slightly reduced at the shoulders. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is curved and sharp. "Akaroa" inscription on front and back.

Complete adze. Dark grey stone. Surface is ground and bruised. Cross-section is lenticular. No differentiation between butt and blade; sides taper toward poll. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is curved and sharp but chipped. "Akaroa." inscription on front and back.

Complete adze. Dark grey and dark red stone. Surface is ground and bruised. Cross-section is triangular on the butt and trapezoidal on the blade, with the front narrower than the back. Front of the butt is reduced to form a ridge. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved; blade tapers toward the cutting edge. "Akaroa." inscription on front and back.

Complete adze. Black stone. Cross-section is trapezoidal, with back narrower than front. Surface is ground. No differentiation between butt and blade; sides slightly taper toward poll. Bevel is demarcated by a curved line. Cutting edge is sharp and straight. "Akaroa" inscription on proper left side and back.

Piece of worked pounamu, possibly a pendant or adze. Rectangular shape and cross section. Surface is ground with sawing marks on one side edge. Broken at both ends. Drill mark at one end, indicating a broken suspension hole.

Incomplete pounamu chisel. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is ground, with flaking on the proper left and right corners of the cutting edge. There are significant sawing marks down the centre of both the front and back. There is minor delineation between the butt and blade, with the sides tapering towards the poll. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and blunt.

Cast of a whale tooth pendant. Curved to a point at the front distal end. Serrated projections running down both side edges. Facial projection at the front centre at the proximal end with large eyes and a long pointy mouth that curves inward. Curved projections run down the centre below the facial feature. Proximal end is squared off, with a small suspension hole.

Complete pendant. Bird head profile at proximal end with suspension hole as eye and broken drilled hole as open beak. Spiral pattern and notched protruding piece at distal end

Complete patu paraoa with drilled perforation on handle. Butt end has deteriorated slightly. The shape of the patu differs in that the handle is placed at the side of blade, as opposed to the middle. Patu is weathered showing porous like pattern over surface. Crack is present beginning from point end of blade running vertically up blade roughly at the centre. Underside of blade has discolouring/possibly staining.

Broken patu onewa, handle and small part of blade remaining. Drilled perforation and ornamental grooves on butt.

Complete adze. Light green, silver, black pounamu. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground and bruised. Sides of the butt are reduced form shoulders, particularly on the proper right side. Proper right side of the blade has been flaked away. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is oblique and sharp. "Banks P." inscription on front.

Broken lure shank. Head is present. A notch/reduction forms the head.

Complete composite fishhook. Shank is manufactured from a boar tusk. Point is manufactured from an iron nail bent inwards at the base and then straight at the tip. The tip is attached to the point with muka. There is twisted muka at the proximal end of the shank for the line, with a knot at the end.