Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Broken point, tip remaining. Bone is very worn.
Complete bone bird spear point with five barbs.
Complete bone toggle. Finished at both ends, lightly chipped around edges. There are serrations around parts of the edges, but not all the way around. There is a single perforation through the toggle.
Complete toggle. Finished at both ends. There is one complete perforation, and a partial perforation at one end. There are deep striations, cutting marks, across the surface.
Complete toggle. There is single large perforation through the centre. Both ends are carved in a short, comb-like teeth pattern.
Broken moa bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is pointed.
Fishhook tab, drilled along one side.
Large moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
Complete moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
Complete but unfinished toggle. Both ends finished, but no perforation.
Unfinished toggle. Finished at both ends, no perforation.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends.
Partially manufactured flute. Broken, one end remaining. End unfinished, no perforations. One large crack.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends. Striation towards one end, at broken edge.
Broken flute, fragment of end remaining. Two striations surface near broken edge, one curved line and one straight line.
Complete albatross bone awl. There is a suspension hole at the proximal end. The back of the suspension hole is enlarged by chipping. The distal end is sharpened into a blunt point with worn notches along the edges.
Complete but unfinished toggle. Finished at both ends, no perforation. Cracks along surface.
Piece of broken bird bone worked to a dull point at one end and filed down and reduced along one side edge
Broken fishhook tab.
Worked bone, shaped tab. No drill marks in surface, but sides rounded in tab shape.
