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Paua shell containing kokowai. Dirt covers the pigment. The edge of the shell shows come chipping.

Piece of dentalium shell, broken at each end and hollow in the centre, possibly used as a pendant bead. White with grooves running the length of the shell.

Dentalium shell necklace bead. Broken at both ends and hollow in the centre. Grooves running the length of the shell.

Fossil snail shell, with large sections of the body whorl and shoulder missing. The remaining fossil shell is white, and the dark grey is fossilised substrate that was filling the shell and therefore took on the internal shape of the shell.