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Broken bird spear point, upper remaining. Visible repair near tip. Two barbs remaining, with a broken barb near the base end. Barbs are serrated.

Worked pounamu Asymmetrical Surface is ground and bruised on one side and flaked on the other. Butt not present. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Worked pounamu Plano convex Surface is ground on one side and flaked on the other. Butt not present. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Incomplete adze. Rectangular. Surface is bruised and flaked. Butt has major differentiation; sides have been heavily reduced. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Worked pounamu Asymmetrical Surface is ground on one side and flaked on the other. Butt not present. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Broken basalt pendant, proximal portion remaining. Previously broken in two pieces and glued back together. Mid grey in colour. Circular cross section. Surface is polished. Three suspension holes drilled at proximal end. Slightly curved.

Complete adze. Rectangular Surface is flaked. Butt has minor differentiation; sides and front have been reduced and shoulders are slightly raised. Bevel demarcated by a curved line. Cutting edge is straight, uneven and flaked.

Complete adze. Oval at poll; rectangular at blade. Surface is bruised and flaked. Butt has major differentiation; sides have been reduced and shoulders are raised. Bevel demarcated with faint ridge. Cutting edge is smooth, sharp and straight.

Complete adze. Oval at poll; plano-convex at blade with front flattened. Surface is ground with intermittent flaking. Butt has minor differentiation; sides are tapered slightly. Bevel continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp, straight and angled.

Incomplete adze. Rectangular Surface is ground, with flaking on the back. Butt not present. Bevel has been flaked away.

Incomplete adze. Rectangular at poll, lenticular at break. Surface is ground with intermittent flaking. Butt has minor differentiation; sides are tapered slightly. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Complete adze. Rectangular/asymmetrical. Surface is bruised and flaked. Butt has minor differentiation; sides are tapered. Bevel demarcated by a faint straight ridge. Cutting edge straight, uneven and chipped.

Complete adze. Poll is plano-convex (back flattened) and blade is trapezoidal with front narrower than back. Surface is ground around lower blade, bruised everywhere else. Butt has major differentiation; front has been clearly reduced and front shoulder is raised. Bevel is demarcated by a curved line running from corner to corner. Cutting edge is straight, smooth and sharp. GLAM ADZE

Complete adze Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, though sides taper towards poll. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Chipped on proper left and proper right.

Complete waka huia. Square in cross-section. Decorated on lid in carved groove and dot motif worked in three sections into complex patterns. The carving patterns differ on both long sides. The base has the groove and dot pattern in swirling pattern that forms two highly stylised faces with (not original) inlay paua shell eyes. The handles are elongated laterally and decorated with an abstract pattern. They are perforated vertically for suspension cord. On one end of the lid there is a centred, wide and flat tongue that has a matching slot. There is a small chip in the corner on this end of the lid. On the other end of the lid, the tongue is off-centre and narrower, with a matching slot. Modern fibre through handle perforations for suspension.

Complete kahu huruhuru, with kiwi and pheasant feathers. Excepting borders, the main body of the cloak is covered with kiwi feather, with a pheasant feather border with distinct blue patch off-centre on left and right edges. Two pair twine, black twine in selvages. Shaped in centre and towards bottom. Manufactured using whatu aho rua (single-pair weft-twining) technique. On the back side, there are five small net bags evenly spaced in two rows - three along the mid-line and two nearer the bottom edge. The left and right edges are multi-strand twists of red, black and undyed string.

Complete Rectangular cross-section at bevel, square at butt Bruised surface with ground area at end of bevel on front and back. The front and sides are reduced at the butt with rounding off of the corners at the shoulder. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The sharp edges at the side of the bevel round off as they continue up the blade. Rounded poll.

Complete matarau (eel spear). Wooden handle worked to a sharp point at both ends. Six other prongs lashed to one end of the handle with two metal braces and muka fibre.

Complete matarau (eel spear). Wooden handle worked to a sharp point at one end. Six other prongs lashed to the point of the handle with vines and muka fibre.

Wooden kumete. Surface is rough with cracks throughout. Elongated oval in shape. Base is flat and squared both internally and externally. Sides are straight and slant outward internally at each end. One end has a broken knobbed projection for handle. Rim is flattened at each end, but broken and cracked on the sides.