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Rakahau te Kohika
Kā taputapu
Complete unfinished adze. Grey stone with light grey on the back of the blade. Plano-convex cross-section with flattened front. The surface is flaked and bruised. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The sides and front of the blade taper in towards the poll. The bevel is a flake scar on the proper left side of the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and irregular.
Complete unfinished adze. Dark grey stone. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is flaked. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The bevel is indicated by an irregular ground area. The cutting edge is blunt, straight and chipped.
Roughout of adze. Dark grey stone with patches of red/brown. Asymmetrical cross-section. The surface is flaked. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The sides of the upper blade taper in towards the poll. The bevel is roughly indicated. The cutting edge is sharp and irregular.
Broken adze, butt end only. Green/grey stone. The cross-section is roughly trapezoidal. The surface is flaked and bruised. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade.
Mahi kai ki uta
Complete slate knife. Surface is grounded on both sides, with flake scar on one surface. Cutting edge is sharp and curved, with chipping on one lateral margin. Haft is flat.
Taoka Māori
Complete one-piece fishhook, with an external knob at the head, and an incurved point. There are external serrations running from the tip to the base.
Complete one-piece fishhook, with faint external serrations and an incurved point.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external notch at the base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external serrations from tip to base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external serrations from top of point to base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external serrations.
Broken curved fishhook point, with external serrations. Tip and base both not present.
Fishhook fragment - there is a knob at one end, with serrations along the opposite side.
Incomplete straight fishhook point. Tip remains with serrations on both sides. Base not present.
Complete curved fishhook point. An external barb with external serrations is present at the point, and there are internal serrations from the point to the base.
Taoka whakarākei
Broken worked piece of black slate, possibly a pendant with the distal end remaining. Tapers to a point at one end.
Mahi whakairo
Complete greenstone drill point. Triangular cross-section. The surface is ground with small flake scars on the bevel and butt ends. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. There is a long oval groove on one side just above the drill point.
Complete double end stone drill point. Grey stone. Triangular cross-section. The surface is mostly ground with flake scars. There is no butt, both ends are points.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment, with tip, point and partial base remaining.