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Complete fish gorge.

Complete adze Cross section is rectangular. Surface is ground. Sawing marks on proper left and right sides. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Piece of worked stone, broken at each end. Cream coloured. Surface is polished. Cross section is irregular. Curved and tapered at one end.

Complete stone file, tapered to a dull point at one end. Ovoid cross section. Light red and light brown in colour.

Complete adze. Oval Surface is bruised with flaking around poll, sides and cutting edge. Butt has minor differentiation; left side proper has been reduced. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is rough, sharp and heavily chipped.

Complete hei tiki made from bone. Suspension hole at top of the head. Head is large in proportion to body, turned to the proper right side, and pointed at the top, with a ridge between eyes to top of forehead. Carved eyes and pointed mouth with tongue. Perforations at neck, arms, and legs. Hands rest on thighs with four fingers on each. Legs are joined at the base. Surface is ground smooth.

Broken adze. Upper blade and butt remaining. Cross section is oval. Surface is ground. Flaked at poll. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. Sides taper towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by lines that come to a point mid blade. Bevel appears to be concave. Cutting edge not present.

Complete adze. Cross-section is asymmetrical (triangular, with apex to proper left side) Surface is ground along back, but flaked on other surfaces. Minor differentiation between butt and blade. Front slightly reduced. Bevel continuous with blade. Cutting edge heavily chipped and straight.

Broken adze, upper blade and butt remaining. Cross-section of blade is rectangular. Cross-section of butt is semi-circular, back flattened. Surface is ground, except on broken edges. Flaked at poll. Major differentiation between butt and blade. Front and sides reduced. Bevel and cutting edge not present.

Complete adze. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground on front and back and proper left. Proper right is flaked. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Broken adze. Blade only Cross-section is oval. Surface is bruised, with flaking at sides. Ground at bevel. Butt not present Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Chipped on proper left side.

Complete adze Cross-section of blade is rectangular, cross-section of butt oval. Surface is ground, becoming more bruised towards butt. Minor differentiation between butt and blade. Sides taper towards poll, and back reduced - sloping upwards towards poll. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Large chip on proper left side of cutting edge, removing portion of cutting edge and front blade.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground on bevel and lower blade. Flaked on sides. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. Sides taper towards poll. Front slopes down towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and straight, chipped on proper left and proper right.

Broken adze (part of butt missing) Cross-section is trapezoidal, with back narrower than front. Surface is ground, with bruising on sides and front of butt. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, though sides taper towards poll. Proper left of butt has large section broken off. Bevel continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Cast of a whale tooth pendant. Curved forward and tapering to a point at the distal end. Proximal end is flat with a notched half-circular projection at the front. One complete and one broken suspension hole, both drilled from each side from the proximal edge to the back. Serrations running down both side edges from the proximal end to the distal end.

Complete tatua. Plaited flax man's war belt. Natural colouration. Made in one piece, with sides folded over and then folded over longitudinally - unstitched long the bottom edge. Plaited in over two, under two twill with loose flax strands from commencement and finish lying loosely inside belt. Darker dyed three ply plaited fibre braid attached to each end.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface of front is ground, surface of sides and back butt bruised with some flaking on front. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, proper right side on back tapered. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Large chip on proper right side. On front; Otago.

Complete wahaika made of wood. Notch on one side of blade. Carved figure protruding from upper blade, creating two perforations. Figure has carved tattoo marks on body. Carved face on butt, with one perforation at the base of the head and another perforation created from its open mouth.

Complete kahu huruhuru with black, white and reddish fowl feathers. Feathers are in roughly parallel, but not completely straight, lines. There is some grey wool in the weaving. There is a small tear along the bottom edge. The side is edged with red wool, the left with undyed wool. Manufactured using whatu aho rua technique (two-pair weft-twining). The upper edge is a thick braid.

Complete kawakawa pounamu ear pendant. Shape is long cylinder with rounded, blunt distal end. Surface is ground. Suspension hole at proximal end. Poll of proximal flattened. Light flaking at the proximal end. There are light green inclusions throughout the pendant.