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A small konae, a two cornered bag made with an even number of whenu (strands) from a folded square base. This Konae is woven from Houhere and completed with an external whiri and has then been folded internally on itself.

Large taha huahua (calabash container) consisting of a gourd inside a woven kete and a wooden frame. Gourd is dark brown/dark orange, with the top cut off to create a wide opening. There are four perforations around the rim of the gourd opening (only one is intact), used for fitting a tuki (wooden mouthpiece). Kete is woven in a under-one, over-one plait, using alternating black and natural unscraped flax. A plaited muka cord is tied around the kete opening, forming a series of loops and lashings around the wooden frame, as well as creating a handle. The wooden frame consists of two hoops around the kete and four legs, which rest diagonally to the calabash.

Waka huia without lid. Mid brown in colour. Lenticular shape. Exterior surface is carved in a geometric pattern including koru and rauru (double spirals). There is an human head projecting at each end for suspension.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Light green, mid green, and cream. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground, with some bruising. Major differentiation between butt and blade, front and sides reduced forming shoulder. Poll flares out. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and curved, large chip on proper left side. Lightly chipped along cutting edge. "Kaikai's Beach" written on front and back.

Complete adze Asymmetrical cross-section, rounded on the proper left and sharper on proper right The surface is mostly bruised, with flake scars on the front and back and the cutting edge. The bevel is ground. There is no differentiation between blade and butt The bevel is continuous with the blade and is curved. The cutting edge is sharp and asymmetrical with some flake scars

Piece of twisted muka cord

complete roughly trapezoidal, back narrower than the front. The surface is ground, with bruising up the sides. Minor differentiation between the butt and blade, where there is a slight reduction from blade to butt on the front proper left side. The bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is oblique and sharp.

Complete pouraka (small fish trap). Trap consists of two wooden hoops with two sticks overlapping above, lashed with muka fibre. A net of woven flax is stretched over the two hoops, with an opening in the centre.

Compete adze butt has a trapezoidal cross section, with back narrower than front. Blade has an oval cross-section. Surface of adze is ground, with bruised surface around sides of butt. major differentiation between butt and blade, with sides reduced. Bevel continuous with blade. Cutting edge is curved, with small chipping.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Broken bone pendant, distal end remaining. Slightly curved and tapering to a point at the distal end.

Broken bird spear point, midsection remaining. Visible repair near tip. Four barbs, the barb closest to the base is broken.

Complete fishhook point, slightly porous on one side.

Complete wooden adze haft. Slightly curved handle, with a long platform at the top. Uncarved. There is a groove around the short end of the platform, and two wider grooves for lashing at the longer end of the platform. There is an adze ( D41.148) lashed to this haft with a length of processed fibre.

Complete Adze. Mostly trapezoidal cross section, with back narrower than front, and with proper right side a straighter edge than the proper left edge. Surface is ground, except for flaking on blade edges. Undifferentiated , no distinction between butt and blade. Bevel demarcated by a line. The cutting edge comes to a flat edge, very blunt.

Complete Trapezoidal cross-section with back narrower than the front Bruised and flaked surface Blade tapers in from the cutting edge towards the poll but no clear differentiation of butt The bevel is demarcated by ridges on its sides and at the chin. The cutting edge has large flake scars on the front and back

Roughout Rectangular cross-section at bevel, irregular trapezoid cross-section at blade with back narrower than the front rough flaked surface, and smooth unworked stone surface on back There is a narrowing and then widening of the sides of the blade towards the poll The stone at the lower back of the adze slopes down to the bottom edge but it ends at a blunt irregular edge rather than a sharp cutting edge. The blade is asymmetrical and unfinished. Sharp irregular ridges form the narrower back side of the blade, widest at bevel, waisted near the top and wide again at the poll

Roughout Asymmetrical cross-section Flaked surface Blade tapers in from the bottom edge towards the poll The piece is so roughly cut that it is unclear which is the front or back. The cutting edge is undefined, irregular and asymmetrical

Complete curved bone pendant. Reduced with suspension hole at the proximal end. Rounded at the distal end.

Complete composite fishhook. Wooden shank carved with double-sided faces at the head, one at the base and one below the point and other geometric shapes throughout. Curved bone point with two internal and two external barbs and two internal notches, lashed to the shank with twisted muka. Two knobs at the head with twisted muka lashings and a plaited cord projecting from the top.