Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete, curved fishhook point. It is mostly dark but light in patches. There is a lower, exterior, serrated notch and above this notch the exterior side of the point is all notched.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the tip remaining. It has an upper, exterior barb that is serrated, the exterior side of the upper point is serrated as well.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on one side becoming serration. Serration present on external and internal sides.
Complete straight fishhook point with internal barb. Serrations on internal side of tip and external side of tip, point and base.
Complete curved fishhook point with internal barb. Serrations on external side with notch on the external side of base.
Broken fishhook point, butt remaining. Perforation through butt, and partial perforation at broken end.
Broken fish gorge, one pointed end remaining.
Complete straight fishhook point. External lower notches, with large internal barb at point.
Broken curved fishhook point, mid remaining, broken at base and tip. Serrations on external side.
Complete threader.
Whakarite kai
sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove
Complete sinker with a shallow transverse lashing groove.
Taoka Puoro
Partially manufactured flute.
Broken fishhook point, butt remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, butt remaining.
Complete curved fishhook point, internal barb.
Complete double-pointed point. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete, straight fishhook point, although it has no tip. It has an internal, upper barb and lower, external serrations.
Small complete bone point. Epiphysis on the proximal end.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is blunt. The proximal end is reduced in thickness.