Collection Search

Incomplete Trapezoidal blade. Front of blade is ground. Back of blade is bruised. No differentiation between blade and butt. Blade is very long and narrow in shape. Bevel is demarcated with slight ridge. Cutting edge is blunt and curved.

Water-worn pebble with suspension hole drilled through from both sides. Light brown with blotches of purple (artificially stained?).

Incomplete Asymmetrical blade. Front of blade is mostly ground with minor flake scarring in some areas. Back of blade is also ground. No differentiation between blade and butt. Significant portion of blade is missing to the left side. Bevel is not clear on blade. Cutting edge is blunt and curved.

Incomplete Not present Front of blade is both ground and bruised as-well as the back. No differentiation between blade and butt. Butt and bevel portion on blade are not present. No bevel is present.

Complete adze. Red stone. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground and bruised. No differentiation between butt and blade. Sides taper toward the poll and poll slopes from proper left downward to proper right. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is curved and blunt with flaking.

Pounamu/nephrite pendant, broken and partially glued back together at the distal end. Mid-green, kawakawa variety. Side edges are rounded, tapering to each end. Proximal end resembles a fish head, with an off-centre suspension hole (drilled from each side) for the eye and a notch at the edge for the mouth. Distal end is oblique. Ref Comp Spkg p 72 (4.1-4)

Complete pounamu/nephrite pendant. Mid green and silver. Surface is ground with some flaking. Tapered at both ends. Proximal end has a suspension hole drilled from both sides (slightly skewed) and sides are slightly squared off. Distal end is rounded with a curved bevel on one side, possibly indicating that this may have been made from a chisel.

Complete pounamu/nephrite pendant. Dark blue-grey, inanga variety. Surface has been ground smooth. Rectangular cross section. Each end has a bevel demarcated by a line, indicating that this piece may have been reworked from a chisel. Proximal end has a very small off-centre suspension hole drilled from each side. Distal edge is chipped and oblique.

Piece of worked pounamu/nephrite, mid-green kawakawa variety. Surface is ground, flaked on some edges. One large projection at one end and three smaller projections at the other end. Ref "Comparatively Speaking" p63 (4.68)

Worked pounamu. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is ground with bruising on each side. The stone is convex, with the sides ground to straightness.

Broken, curved fishhook point with the base and lower point remaining. It has a lower, external barb and a reduction down the base.

Fragment of a patu onewa, part of handle and proximal part of the blade remaining. Broken at the butt, with evidence of a perforation remaining.

Complete, curved fishhook point.

Fragment of partially manufactured flute. Remaining end is finished with a perforation. There are two more drill marks along the top, one very faint, and another just at the broken edge. There are cutting marks around the flute just before the broken end, possibly to be reworked into another object. Cracked.

Partially manufactured flute. Finished at one end, with a drilled perforation. The other end is broken.

Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. One end is finished and the other is broken. There are striations around the finished end.

Piece of hollow bone, previously broken in four pieces and glued back together. Worked to a point at one end.

Piece of hollow bone, broken at one end and worked to a blunt point at the other end. Surface is weathered.