Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
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.
Complete fish gorge, 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.
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.
Mostly complete bone bird spear point, small part of tip not present (possibly missing a barb). Four barbs.
Broken fishhook point, lower point remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining.
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with a faint transverse lashing groove.
Adze roughout. Black stone. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Surface is flaked. Reduction around the butt with the sides tapered towards the poll. There is no obvious bevel and the cutting edge is not present due to flaking. "Onepoto" inscription.
Length of worked bone, cut at one end. Epiphysis on the other.