Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete awl or shellfish picker. Manufactured from hollow bone with an epiphysis.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker. Manufactured from hollow bone, with epiphysis on the proximal end.
Bone point or shellfish picker. Long and slender.
Unfinished bird spear point. Single barb at base. Notches indicating unfinished barbs along shaft.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip. External notches at base.
Broken bird spear point, tip is broken and lower shaft is also broken. 8 barbs. It is black on the side, may be burnt and there is surface cracks and cuts on it. In one place it looks cut. White spots on it
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness is reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Complete awl or shellfish picker. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Broken bone point, broken at the proximal end. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete bone point, slightly curved.
Broken bone point, sharpened distal end remaining. Broken at the proximal end.
Broken bone point, tip remaining.
One-piece fishhook, all remaining but point and head. Bait knob at base.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a long, sawn eye near the proximal end that comes to a point.
