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David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Kā taputapu
Adze roughout. Grey and brown stone. Surface is flaked. Cross-section is lenticular. Sides are reduced around the butt. Bevel is demarcated by a change in colour and surface. Cutting edge is not present due to flaking. "McKays Ground Papanui Inlet" inscription
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove and quartered lashing groove that is deep at two points and very faint at other two.
Taoka Māori
Complete bone bird spear point. Five barbs.
Incomplete bone bird spear point, broken at each end. Two barbs.
Broken bone bird spear point, lower portion remaining. Two barbs. Notches on barbs and on both sides of base.
Complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Large piece of solid bone worked to a point at the distal end, broken at the proximal end. Surface of the point is smooth with polishing marks evident. Internal bone structure visible on one side.
Partially manufactured fishhook.
Complete awl. Distal end is pointed. There is a crack around where the point emerges from the base.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone.
Mostly complete fish gorge. Tip of one point broken.
Complete fish gorge.
Mostly complete bone bird spear point. Ten barbs, five on each side of spear. One broken barb and small part broken off of pointed end.
Unfinished needle. Tip is chipped at distal end.
Complete needle. Distal end sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, and there is a drilled, circular eye.
Taoka whakarākei
Piece of worked bone. One straight edge and one edge carved in irregular waves. Tapering to a point on one end.
Complete straight fishhook point.
