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Partially manufactured fishhook point showing drill work along one side.

Broken patu onewa, complete in two pieces. Surface is ground. There are several chips around the edges of the blade. There is a perforation at the handle - drilled from both sides. The patu onewa has been broken through the handle at the perforation. The other piece features the knob of the handle, with four grooves on either side of the oval knob with a central ridge between.

Macaque monkey skull, with the jaw tied in place.

Complete adze. Trapezoidal with back narrower than front. Ground with flaking down sides and on back Butt has minor differentiation; right side proper has been reduced above shoulder. Bevel flaked away. Cutting edge is smooth, sharp and slightly rounded with minor chipping.

Complete adze. Quadrangular. Surface is bruised and flaked Butt has minor differentiation - sides are tapered toward poll. Bevel demarcated by very faint ridge. Cutting edge is straight, sharp and heavily chipped.

Complete adze. Trapezoidal with front narrower than back. Bruised with some ground areas. Butt has differentiation, sides taper sharply toward poll. Bevel demarcated by strong line. Cutting edge is sharp, smooth and rounded.

Complete adze Circular at poll; oval at blade. Ground around lower blade, bruised and flaked from mid-blade up to poll. Butt has minor differentiation; sides have been tapered slightly. Bevel is demarcated by a straight line running up from the right side proper corner on an angle up the blade. Cutting edge is rounded, smooth and blunt.

Complete adze. Oval at poll; plano-convex at blade with front flattened. Cutting edge below bevel is ground, the rest is heavily bruised and flaked. Butt undifferentiated. Bevel demarcated by strong curved line running from corner to corner of cutting edge. Cutting edge is sharp, smooth and very faintly rounded.