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Rakahau te Kohika
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight worked bone. Broken at one end and the other end has been filed to a rounded, bevelled edge. Surface is very smooth, with some evidence of polishing marks around the worked tip.
Taoka Māori
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. No eye.
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.
Fishhook tab, sides worked but no drill marks.
Broken curved fishhook point. Base present.
Complete straight fishhook point. 2 barbs, 1 near the tip the other lower near the base. 2 notches on the base at the opposite edge.
Complete straight fishhook point. 1 barb on the point. A reduction at the base on this edge. 2 notches at the base on the opposite edge.
Complete straight fishhook point. A slight reduction at the base on one edge, 1 notch at the base on the opposing edge.
Broken bird spear point, base remaining. There is one barb, with serrations along the top of the barb.
Broken bird spear point, base remaining. There is one barb that has broken off. Serrations on lower side of base.
Broken curved fishhook point. Base is present. A perforation in the base.
He kura
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.
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.