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Complete fish gorge. Visible repair where previously broken.

Complete fish gorge.

Complete fish gorge, serrated along one side of the medial portion.

Complete fish gorge.

Bone shank of composite fishhook. The cross section is triangular. The head has one perforation and the base has two perforations. There is a dried adhesive on the back face.

Broken tattoo chisel, partially manufactured. Broken at both ends. Sides taper at one end, and at the other the surface of the bone appears bruised.

Complete tattoo chisel. There are two notches on one side of the chisel, approximately equidistant from either end. There is a latitudinal striation below the lower notch across the width of the chisel, followed by short striations all along the same side. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Complete tattoo chisel. Cutting edge is oblique and sharp.

Complete tattoo chisel. This one is unusually wide. Cutting edge is sharp and straight.

Complete tattoo chisel. Hafting end reduced with a notch on either side. Cutting edge is sharp and curved, though chipped. Distinct bevel down to cutting edge.

Complete tattoo chisel, possibly unfinished. The proximal end has a notch on either side. One surface of the chisel has darkened striations in a cross-hatched pattern. The proximal end is sharp but chipped.

Broken tattoo chisel, upper portion remaining. Hafting end is reduced at both corners. The cutting edge is broken off.

Broken tattoo chisel, mostly complete but chipped along cutting edge. Small teeth along remaining length of cutting edge.

Complete tattoo chisel, though unfinished. Deep reduction at end of hafting edge, from perforation drilled though and then lengthened. Cutting edge is blunt and curved, with grooves that would become teeth.

Complete bone point, distal end sharpened to a fine point.

Complete bone pendant. Straight with four notches carved near the proximal end. Tapered at the proximal end. Comes to a point at the distal end.

Broken patu paraoa, two fragments remaining. Fragment A is a long slender portion of the blade, broken at either end. There is are two arrow shaped grooves on the surface of the patu, one pointing in either direction. The bone is worn and porous. Fragment B is the butt end of the handle, widest at the very end.

Fire plate, and fire stick. The fire plate is a flat wooden slab made of light coloured wood. Deep grooved in centre of plate with burn marks at one end. Burn marks in three places on side edges - two on right side U shaped indentation Polished on intact portions both edges. The fire stick is a rounded with blackened point with broken proximal end.

Incomplete putatara. There are three perforations at the apex of the spire where the mouthpiece would have been attached. There is a perforation and a partial perforation at the proximal end of the outer lip, with a fragment missing along the edge of the lip.

Broken bone point or shellfish picker. Distal end is sharp with a slight curve. There is a visible repair where previously broken.