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Complete adze. Pounamu. Light green. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is mostly ground, with some flaking on sides and back and some bruising at poll. Undifferentiated between butt and blade. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Distal portion of a broken adze blade. Includes cutting edge and area of bevel. Incomplete adze - blade remaining. Trapezoidal with back narrower than front. Bruised and flaked. Butt not present. Bevel continuous with blade and tapers down to cutting edge which is rounded, blunt and chipped.

Complete adze. Oval at poll, lenticular at blade. Surface is ground toward cutting edge and bruised everywhere else. Butt has minor differentiation; sides have been reduced slightly. Bevel is demarcated by a faint straight line and curves toward cutting edge. Cutting edge is smooth, sharp and very slightly curved.

Complete pounamu gouge. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with flaking on the cutting edge, and poll. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and blunt, with flaking on the proper right.

Incomplete adze. Oval at break, rectangular at blade. Surface is bruised and flaked. Butt not present. Bevel is continuous with blade and curves down toward cutting edge. Cutting edge is sharp and uneven.

Complete adze. Trapezoidal with front narrower than back. Surface is ground, with bruising on the back of the right side proper and minor flaking around right side proper edge and the left side proper of the cutting edge. Butt has differentiation, sides have been heavily reduced. Bevel is demarcated with a faint line and curves down toward the cutting edge. Cutting edge is sharp and jagged from flaking.

Complete adze. Plano-convex, front flattened. Surface is bruised and flaked, with a shiny substance coating a sizeable part of the adze. Butt is undifferentiated. Bevel is demarcated by a curved line running from corner to corner of the cutting edge and meeting at an off-centre apex.

Complete curved fishhook point.

Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.

Complete curved fishhook point. Partial perforation at base, with complete perforation through base. Two small external barbs, one near base, and one near tip, with serrations between.

Complete curved fishhook point. Two small external barbs, both on lower point. Serrations from upper barb to tip.