Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Piece of worked bone, broken on one end and tapered to a point on the other end. Cross section is quadrangular on the broken end and pentagonal at the pointed end. Surface is polished.
Piece of straight bird bone, broken in half lengthwise and worked to a dull point at one end.
Complete fish gorge.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Complete point. One end is finished and smoothed, the other is sharpened to a point.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end missing tip of point, epiphysis remaining on proximal end.
Complete but unfinished toggle, with no perforation.
Rākau o te riri
Broken patu paraoa, blade remaining. Bone is very worn, and sides of blade are chipped.
Complete bone point, distal end sharpened.
Broken needle, proximal end remaining. There is a drilled circular eye at the proximal end.
Complete straight fishhook point. Barb and notches at external lower base, another barb above notches. Internal barb near point.
Broken needle, distal end remaining. Distal end sharp.
complete curved fishhook point.
complete straight fishhook, five serrations on external edge. Barb near point.
He kura
Unfinished bone pendant. Slightly curved. Drill mark at proximal end, indicating an incomplete suspension hole.
Cut length of seal bone, epiphysis on one end.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb, with serrations on both sides of tip, as well as all down the external surface.
Broken fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone, one tip broken off.
