Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine point.
Bone point, cut and and worked at each end. Broken carving of a figure in the centre, three-fingered hands remaining.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine and slender point.
Complete point. Epiphysis of bone remains at one end, distal end sharpened to a fine point.
Piece of worked bone. Filed to a sharp point at one end, with internal bone structure visible. Epiphysis intact at the other end, with a perforation through one side.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a blunt point.
Broken bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a blunt point, with sides broken off till about midway.
Complete point. One end sharpened to a fine point.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine point, very tip broken off.
Unfinished point, partial epiphysis remaining at the proximal end. The distal end is cut, but not sharpened.
Broken needle, fragment of proximal end remaining. Broken at the drilled, circular eye.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp, with tip missing.
Bone needle with a perforation at one end and broken at the other end.
Broken straight fishhook point. All remaining except base. Internal barb at point.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notch at base.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Mostly complete fishhook point. Notched on external side of base, two internal barbs.