Carved wooden club (patu or mere). Weapon is thin with tapering edges. Head is spatulate, with a wide top and a concave area below a carved upside-down humanoid face. The face has angled eyes with inset half-circle shell eyes, and a large tongue. Each side is ornately carved, with a single circular shell inset at centre. The short handle is smooth, culminating in a pommel carved into two circles, one with inset beads of abalone shell on each side at centre. Carved into the side, TE-RAU-O-TE-AROHA.

Greenstone pendant (hei tiki) of a stylized human figure. The figure's head is tilting to its right, and has large circular eyes. The left arm has broken off; the right hand ends at the thighs. A black ribbon is tied through the bored holes at the top of the head.

Skirt or piupiu composed of strands of alternating scraped and not scraped flax leaves forming a horizontal striped pattern where the not scraped leaves are a light yellow colour, and the scraped segments are a dark brown colour. Spelled out using dark sections is "AOTEAROA". The leaves hang from a woven waistband made of grey-blue and orange braided fibre with long ties on each end, also braided. The initials B.T. are stitched onto the waistband in white. The piupiu storage bag (part b) is tube shaped with both ends open and able to be cinched. The top has lining tape creating a pocket, through which a grey and red-brown plaited fibre cord is drawn through. The other end has an elastic strap threaded through and tied off.

Woven lacebark(?) bag. The bag is rectangular in shape, with the top slightly flaring out to the opening. Overall the bag is a light orange colour with diagonal bands of grey-green throughout creating a loosely plaid pattern. There are two thin straps attached at the top with tassels at each end.

Rectangular woven flax bag with geometric designs in brown and natural colour. Weaving has alternating vertical bands of colour, and double twisted sections with an X-like appearance. Around the sides and bottom edge are thick layers of fringe, alternating between sections of brown or natural. The top has two thin twisted handles with tassels.

Wood pendant (hei tiki) of a stylized human figure. The figure's head is tilting to its right. The large circular eyes have shell inlay. Both hands are on its thighs. A braided cord is tied through a hole at the middle of the forehead.

Amber-coloured heart-shaped ornament made of kauri gum. Carved into one face is the outline of another heart, about 0.5 cm in from the edge. The ornament is polished, but worn.

Woven bodice (part a) with embroidered band across top. At centre, there is a white diamond, with the diamond shape radiating out from the centre in black and white sideways V's. Two black fabric shoulder straps are sewn on one end, and pinned in place by safety pins on the back. The upper section of the bodice fastens at the back with metal hook and clasps, leaving the bottom fabric open and drapey. The headband (part b) matches the embroidery on the bodice. It is composed of two pieces of fabric with bilaterally symmetrical designs, stitched together on one end, and attached by three small pieces of black elastic strap on the other. The interior is lined with black fabric. A typed label with the name "Deirdre Parkes" is stitched to the lining of the front, centre.

Skirt composed of hanging strands of flax stalks from a woven fibre waistband. The stalks have a pattern alternating between beaten and unbeaten portions, forming a horizontal striped pattern where the unbeaten stalks are a light yellow colour, and the beaten segments are a burnt, dark brown colour. The woven waistband features diamond and triangle designs in light and dark brown. The stalks hang from a woven waistband made of braided plant fibre.

Carved, lidded box. Dark brown thin and oblong box, with heads emerging at both ends serving as handles. Bottom portion of box (part a) has a thick base, with shallowly carved interior dish. Exterior is heavily carved with intricate faces and curved lines, with inset circles of iridescent shell for eyes. Two holes are carved into the rim of the box into which fit corresponding squares of wood emerging from the lid (part b). Lid is similar in shape to bottom portion, with a shallow interior, and heavy intricate exterior carvings. A wide face sits at either end with the same iridescent shell for eyes.