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Pounamu hei matau pendant. Broken in two pieces and glued back together.

Complete pendant made from a whale tooth. Curved to a point at the distal end. Surface is worn and in poor condition. Proximal end is squared off with a suspension hole at one corner, drilled from both sides. Evidence of broken projections running along the external edge.

Complete toki. Pounamu. Mid green, light green, silver. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground, with sawing mark down proper left side. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, front reduces and slopes towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curved, lightly chipped. "Kaikai's Bay" written on back.

Complete pounamu hei tiki. Very light green with white spots layers. Smooth edges and shape. Head is turned toward the proper left side. Eyes, nose, lips, shoulders, and feet indicated by incised lines. Cracked brown line through the nose. Small suspension hole at the top of the head, mostly drilled from the back. On the back side, natural depression on the right shoulder.

Mostly complete patu paraoa, broken at the butt and heavily weathered on the blade edges and back side. Front surface is smooth. Butt is broken with a projection remaining on one side, possibly the remains of a broken perforation. Pronounced shoulders where the handle meets the blade. Decorative ridges and grooves at the proximal end of the blade. There is a projection on the proper right side with a small perforation drilled from both sides; left side also appears to have had a similar projection which has broken off.

Broken adze, butt remaining. Black and light brown stone. Cross-section is round on the butt and rectangular on the blade. Surface is ground and bruised. Sides of the butt are slightly reduced to form shoulders and front of the butt slopes to the poll. Cutting edge is curved and blunt and appears to have been reground, with a bevel that is continuous with the blade. "Waimera [Waiwera], South" inscription on front.

Complete adze. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Side hafted adze. Surface is bruised. Major differentiation between butt and blade - proper right side heavily reduced, leaving a handle like shape on proper left of adze. Bevel is demarcated by surface, where it changes from bruised on the butt to ground on the bevel and cutting edge. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Large chips along edge.

Complete adze. The cross-section is lenticular. The surface is ground with flaking on the poll. There is minor differentiation between the butt and the blade as the surface changes from ground to flaked. The bevel is demarcated by an oblique ridge. The cutting edge is straight and sharp but it has quite a few chips along it, with two major ones on either side.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Dark green, mid grey. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground on front and back, surface is bruised on sides and butt. Major differentiation between butt and blade, front and sides reduced forming shoulder. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curved, heavily chipped. "Nth Taieri" written on front.

Complete adze. Basalt. Mid grey, dark grey. Cross-section of butt is oval, cross-section of blade is rectangular. Surface of front and back lower blade is ground, all other surfaces are bruised. Major differentiation between butt and blade, unusually, back reduced forming shoulder on back of adze. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and curved, fragment missing from proper right. Cutting edge is heavily chipped. "Nth Taieri" written on front.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete adze. Stone. Black. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground, with deep but smoothed flake marks, bruised on front butt. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, sides reduced to form small shoulder. Poll end of butt flaked. Bevel is demarcated by line, cutting edge is sharp and straight, lots of little chips along cutting edge. Clinton written on front.

Complete adze. Stone. Black. Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground on front and back blade, bruised on sides and back of blade and butt, flaked at poll. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, sides reduced forming shoulder. Bevel is continuous with blade. Cutting edge is sharp and straight.

Broken, unfinished putatara. The apex of the spire has been broken off, but there are no perforations to attach a mouthpiece, and the interior spire is intact. The majority of the body is broken off. There are no obvious signs of working.

Complete toki. Trapezoidal with back narrower than front. Poll = Oval. Front of blade is mostly bruised. Back of blade is very similar to front - also bruised. Major differentiation between blade and butt. Clear reduction to the shoulder. Bevel is continuous on blade. Cutting edge is curved and blunt.

Complete toki. Rectangular. Narrowing in the sides towards the poll. The surface is ground with flake scars. No differentiation between the butt and the blade. the bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp, slightly curved and oblique.

Broken toki (Butt, part of the blade and part of the bevel present). Roughly rectangular. Narrows in the sides towards the poll. The surface is ground with flake scars. No differentiation between the butt and the blade. The bevel is flat and demarcated from the blade by a clear ridge. The cutting edge is missing.

Complete adze. Rectangular. Narrowing in the sides towards the poll. The surface is ground. Saw mark and seam on the proper left side. No differentiation between the butt and the blade. The bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is straight and oblique

Complete adze. Oval. The surface is ground with some bruising and flake scars. Narrows slightly in the sides towards the poll. No differentiation between the blade and the butt. The bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and slightly oblique.

Complete toki.Oval. Narrowing in the sides slightly towards the poll. The surface is ground. No differentiation between the butt and the blade. The bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is blunt and curved