Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Partially manufactured fishhook tab with single large drill notch on one side.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye. There is a drill mark on one side at the very proximal end.
Broken needle, tip and shaft remaining. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, and broken at the drilled, circular eye.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drill mark on one side. There is the remains of a previous backing material on the back.
Broken, possibly unfinished awl. Broken at the proximal end, and the tip is blunt.
Complete awl.
Curved broken fishhook point, all remaining except tip and base. Splintered and showing wear throughout.
Complete straight fishhook point, with notches near base
Broken curved fishhook point, all remaining except the base.
Broken curved fishhook point, all remaining except base.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. Cracked at proximal end.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp.
Complete awl, slender. Epiphysis remaining on the proximal end.
Bone point. Distal end is sharp, with sides and proximal end rough and unfinished.
Bone point, distal end is sharp. Dot of black ink on back.