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Complete pounamu pendant. Dark green tangiwai variety with high translucency. Surface is flaked and weathered, particularly on the back and at the ends. Rectangular cross section and shape, tapering slightly toward the proximal end. Suspension hole off-centre and drilled from both sides; evidence of previous drilled suspension holes broken out on the proximal edge.

Complete pounamu/nephrite pendant. Dark brown kawakawa variety with light brown inclusions. Surface is ground with some chipping. Proximal end is rounded off, one side edge is straight and the other is at an angle. There are cut marks across the suspension hole, which has been drilled from both sides and is off-centre. Side edges are straight and squared off at the distal edge. Bevelled on both sides, demarcated by lines.

Complete pounamu/nephrite pendant. Dark green and light green kawakawa variety. Surface is ground smooth with some bruising. Proximal end is rounded with an off-centre suspension hole drilled from both sides. Side edges are straight and squared off at the distal end. One side of the distal end is bevelled.

Complete pounamu/nephrite pendant. Black and dark green kawakawa variety. Surface is smooth. Teardrop shape. Proximal end curves to one side, with an off-centre suspension hole drilled from both sides. Edges are rounded.

Pounamu/nephrite pendant. Dark green with lighter green inclusions, kawakawa variety, low translucency. Surface is ground with some bruising. Square-shaped with rounded corners, slightly tapered on one side. Rectangular cross section. Large suspension hole just off-centre of the pendant and drilled from both sides.

Piece of worked pounamu/nephrite. Dark green kawakawa variety with low translucency. Groove running lengthwise on both sides with objective to break into two. One edge has been squared off, and the other is oblique, coming to a point on one side.

Broken piece of pounamu/nephrite, possibly a pendant. Dark green and brown. Surface is ground smooth with rounded edges. Teardrop shape, piece broken off at end which is slightly tapered.