Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone, split at one end and worked to a blunt point.
Piece of hollow, straight bone, split at one end and worked to a point.
Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split at one end and worked to a point.
Piece of worked bone, small part of epiphysis remaining on one end. Split and worked to a blunt point on the other end.
Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split at both ends; one end has been filed to a point, the tip of which has broken off.
Taoka Māori
Complete bone awl or shellfish picker. Epiphysis on the proximal end, distal point is long and sharp.
Piece of hollow, straight bone, broken at one end. The other end is split and worked to a point.
Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split at one end and filed to a sharp point.
Piece of hollow, straight bone, split at each end. One end has a straight edge and the other is filed to a blunt point.
Piece of hollow, straight bone. One end is split and worked to a sharp point.
Piece of hollow bone, worked to a flattened point at one end. Surface is smooth with polishing marks evident, particularly around the opening of the pointed end.
Piece of hollow bone, worked to a dull, flattened point at one end. Surface is smooth with polishing marks evident, particularly around the edge of the pointed end.
Complete bird spear point. Has three barbs. Serrations on one side and on one barb.
Broken bone point, tip broken off.
Broken bone point, missing fragment along one side.
Bone point, rough down both sides and at proximal end.
Broken bone awl or shellfish picker, medial portion remaining, broken at tip and proximal end.
Bone point.
Broken bone point, mostly complete except for broken proximal end.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker.