New Acquisitions

Complete adze. Grey stone. Surface is ground and flaked on the blade and bruised around the butt. Cross-section is rectangular. No differentiation between butt and blade; sides and back taper toward poll. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is straight and sharp.

Complete adze. Dark brown stone. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground. No differentiation between butt and blade; sides taper toward poll. Bevel is demarcated by a ridge. Cutting edge is oblique and sharp.

Complete pounamu chisel. The cross section is lenticular. The surface is ground. There is flaking at the poll and on the back, next to the bevel. There is minor delineation between blade and poll, with the sides tapering towards the poll. The bevel is demarcated by a straight line. The cutting edge is straight and blunt, with chipping.

Curved bone pendant, broken at each end. Drill mark at the proximal end indicating a broken suspension hole.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove. Material has multiple natural inclusion.

Complete adze. Stone (doesn't look like pounamu to me). Black. Cross-section is semi-circular, with front flattened. Surface is ground, with some light bruising. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and straight. Southland? written on back.

Complete straight fishhook point with 3 distinct notches at base. Fishhook appears to have no barbs present.

Porcellanite core. Cortex present on three sides. From the orientation of the accession number, the cortex is on the proper right, proximal and dorsal sides.

Broken. Probably section of blade present. Butt, bevel and cutting edge missing. Rectangular. The surface is mostly ground, with bruising and a few flake scars. No butt present. Bevel and cutting edge have also broken off.

Broken, missing most of the bevel and whole cutting edge Rectangular, narrowing from blade to butt. The surface is ground, with significant flaking. No differentiation between the butt and the blade but sides taper towards poll. Bevel is damaged but appears to be indistinguishable from the blade. Cutting edge is not present.

Butt end of adze. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is bruised and flaked. The sides of the piece taper in towards the poll. The broken end is blunt.

Complete adze. Dark brown stone. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground with some bruising on the butt. Sides are reduced toward the poll. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is straight and blunt.