Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone. Broken and split at each end. One end has been filed to a blunt point.
Piece of hollow, straight bone. Broken at one end and split at the other end, tapering to a sharp point.
Piece of straight, hollow bone, broken and split at each end. One end has been filed to a sharp point.
Piece of straight, hollow bone, broken at one end. Split at the other end and filed to a sharp point.
Taoka Māori
Piece of hollow bone, worked to a long sharp point at one end. Broken at the other end. Surface is smooth and polished.
Piece of bone, broken in half and at one end and worked to a flattened point at the other end.
Mostly complete curved fishhook point with upper tip absent.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.
Complete, curved fishhook point that is serrated along the upper, external point and tip.
Complete curved fishhook point with notches at base. Made from a seal's tooth.
Complete straight fishhook point. Barbed with notches at base.
Complete straight fishhook point. External notches at base and middle. Internal upper barb. Transverse striations across face at lower notches. Diagonal striations from above basal notches, intersecting with transverse striations and ending at internal basal corner.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the lower point remaining.
Mostly complete picker. Small chip at the proximal end and tip is broken from distal end.
Mostly complete picker. Small chip and cracks at the proximal end.
Mostly complete picker, double-ended. Both points are chipped.
Broken picker or threader, tip remaining.
Complete needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end. The proximal end is cracked, and a missing fragment has been replaced with a filler material.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is pointed, with a partial perforation on the back of the proximal end.
Complete gorge. Comes to a point at both ends, and serrated down one side.
