Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends. There are visible repairs where previously broken.
Taoka Puoro
Broken flute, fragment of one end remaining. Cracks in surface. Perforation at one end.
Unfinished toggle. Narrow piece of worked bone, not finished at the ends.
Small fragment of flute. Cutting marks on surface.
Piece of curved bone with no distinguished markings.
Broken flute, small fragment remaining. Cutting marks at one end.
Broken curved fishhook point, internal barb.
Complete straight fishhook point. Piece at base and tip broken. Serrated along one side of base.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Cutting marks at both ends.
Worked bone, shaped tab. No drill marks in surface, but sides rounded in tab shape.
Whakarite kai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove
Broken sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove
Piece of bone, worked to a dull point at one end, a small part of the tip of which has broken off.
Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends.
Broken flute, fragment of one end remaining. One end is finished and smooth.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.