Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Curved fishhook point, either unfinished or worn. Tip is rounded, not obviously broken.
Complete, curved fishhook with a lower, external barb.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining. Previously broken near tip, glued together.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the upper point and tip missing. It has a lower, exterior barb and the exterior side of the point is serrated above the tip. At the base there is a perforation although a bit of it has broken off.
Broken curved fishhook point, all present except base.
Complete, straight fishhook with a lower, internal barb.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends, with a deep striation at one end.
Complete curved fishhook point with no visible features.
Broken, curved fishhook with the lower point remaining.
Bone bird spear point, broken at both ends. Two barbs. Serrations along barbed side.
Broken needle, distal end remaining. Distal end is sharp. There is a sawn, long eye, broken.
Broken bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened.
Broken bird spear point, with shaft and tip remaining. Small in dentations on edges near base.
Mahi whakairo
Incomplete adze - blade extant. Oval Bruised and flaked. Butt not present. Bevel demarcated by faint curved line running from corner to corner. Cutting edge is sharp, rough and rounded.
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is pointed.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. The proximal end is wide and unperforated.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Broken piece of hollow worked bone, filed to a flattened point at one end.
Broken fish gorge, one end remaining. End comes to a point, with a notch at the end, followed by a group of three notches.
Broken fish gorge, one end remaining. End is sharpened.