Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
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.
Taoka Maori, Archaeology
Complete fish gorge.
Complete point. One end is finished and smoothed, the other is sharpened to a point.
Complete but unfinished toggle, with no perforation.
Cut length of bone, epiphysis on one end. Striations around cut edge.
Partially manufactured fishhook
Fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook, broken.
Complete toggle, finished at both ends. Perforation at one end.
Partially manufactured hook showing drill work.
Complete albatross bone awl. The proximal end is unworked. The distal end is sharpened toa blunt point.
Unidentified fishhook fragment. One side straight and one side curved. Notch at one end.
Broken fishhook, base and unidentified portion remaining. Curved at a right angle with some reduction at base.
Broken fishhook fragment, curved with unknown portion remaining.
Broken one-piece fishhook, shank remaining. Knob and shank knob at head.
Broken fishhook, unknown portion remaining. Curved and tapered toward one end with notch.
Broken fishhook, curved unknown portion remaining.
Fragment of curved fishhook point, possibly from one-piece fishhook. Broken at base and upper point.
Slab of worked bone. One end is filed down to a dull point.
Bone worked into a curved point. Epiphysis remaining at the proximal end. Surface is smooth on the internal side of the curve with grinding marks evident.
