Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Broken needle, shaft and tip remaining. Shaft is fine, distal end sharp.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Broken tattoo chisel, fragments missing from hafting end and long cutting edge. There is a partial perforation through the hafting end, where the fragment is missing. Teeth along the cutting edge, some broken off.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Mid brown colour.
Unidentified fishhook fragment that could possibly be a tab. Clear groove going horizontal at bottom portion. One side has small square shaped impressions.
Mostly complete threader, chipped around the proximal end.
Broken threader, distal end remaining.
Broken threader, long portion remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Broken needle, proximal end remaining. There is a drilled, circular eye. There is a broken eye at the very proximal end.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the tip missing. It has an lower, exterior notch above which the exterior side is serrated.
Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, external barb that has notches along it and lower, external notches.
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with shallow quartered lashing groove. Exterior layer has broken off on one side
Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.
Complete fishhook point, straight with notches at base.
Complete fish gorge.
Complete fishhook point, straight and barbed, notches at base.
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove only visible on lateral margins.
Chalcedony drill point. Light grey in colour. Cortex on proximal end, and a little down one lateral margin.