A wooden box with ventilation holes cut out in a pattern. A metal cover is on one end with 5 screw type terminals numbered "+", 1.5, 15, 150, 600 engraved into metal. A metal plate on the side is inscription. Also engraved underneath the terminals…
Carved wooden object. Michie (1887) describes this as a dirk, Reid (1912) as a dagger, Hunt (1981) as a weaving peg. Inscription: In ink on the point in cursive style: New Zealand dirk