New Acquisitions

Complete adze. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Surface is ground, except for poll and proper right front edge, which are flaked. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a faint line, cutting edge is sharp and curved, heavily chipped. "Sumner." written on front.

Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Drilled, circular eye at the proximal end.

Complete wooden patu aruhe (beater for preparing fern root). Spatula shaped blade with parallel sides and a lenticular cross-section. The distal end is rounded. There is a distinct shoulder between the upper blade and the handle. The handle is circular in cross-section with knob on proximal end. There is a build-up of dirt on both sides of the blades. There are several hair cracks on surface.

Complete fan shell pendant with suspension hole.

Fragment of wood carving. Light red and brown in colour. Half-circular shape (cut on a straight, flat plane on one side). Two knobs sit on rounded outside edge. One face is carved in relief with a pakura or puwerewere (curved fan) and haehae (ridges) pattern. The other face is undecorated with chisel marks evident. Small insect holes throughout.

Complete, straight fishhook point with one lower, internal barb and one upper, internal barb. There is a external barb a third of the way down the point. It has external, lower notches.

Complete, curved fishhook point with an internal barb in the middle of point and lower, external notches.

Complete bird spear point. There are five barbs, four on one side with one barb on the opposite side. The base of the bird spear point is serrated on both sides.

Broken bird spear point, tip remaining. There are two barbs.

Broken flute, one end remaining. There is one small perforation near the end, with a larger partial perforation on the opposite side. There are darkened striations across the surface, in a triangular pattern on one side, and diagonal lines on the other. Inside of flute stuffed with tissue.

Fragment of wood carving. Light red and brown in colour. Half-circular shape (sawn on a straight, flat plane on one side). Three knobs sit on rounded outside edge. One face is carved in relief with a pakura or puwerewere (curved fan) and haehae (ridges) pattern. The other face is undecorated with chisel marks evident. Small insect holes throughout.

Partial patu onewa, with bottom of blade and part of main body split off, no tau or perforation. Handle and most of blade present. Surface of patu rough and unfinished. Reduced at shoulder where blade meets neck.