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Complete silcrete blade. Light yellow and light grey in colour.

Piece of hollow, straight bone, split at one end and worked to a blunt point.

Silcrete flake. Dark brown in colour.

Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Light yellow and light grey in colour.

Piece of hollow, straight bone, split at one end and worked to a point.

Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split at one end and worked to a point.

Piece of worked bone, small part of epiphysis remaining on one end. Split and worked to a blunt point on the other end.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete adze. Light brown stone. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is mostly bruised and flaked. Minor differentiation between the butt and blade; sides slightly tapered toward the poll. Bevel is demarcated by a change in surface from ground to flaked. Cutting edge is curved and blunt. "Papanui" inscription.

Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split at both ends; one end has been filed to a point, the tip of which has broken off.

Complete adze. The cross section is asymmetrical but approximately lenticular. The surface is predominantly flaked. The cutting edge is partially ground on both sides. The butt is undifferentiated. There is no clear bevel. The cutting edge is blunt.

Rock core. White and mid orange in colour. Cortex present on one side.

Piece of hollow, straight bone, broken at one end. The other end is split and worked to a point.

Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split at one end and filed to a sharp point.

Piece of hollow, straight bone, split at each end. One end has a straight edge and the other is filed to a blunt point.

Silcrete flake. Light grey in colour.

Piece of hollow, straight bone. One end is split and worked to a sharp point.

Piece of hollow bone, worked to a flattened point at one end. Surface is smooth with polishing marks evident, particularly around the opening of the pointed end.

Roughout Quadrangular at poll, rectangular at blade. Bruised and flaked. Butt undifferentiated. Bevel continuous with blade. Cutting edge rough, blunt and uneven.