Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete bone point, distal end is sharpened. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Piece of bone, broken in half and broken at one end. Worked to a dull, flattened point at the other end.
Taoka Puoro
Complete but unfinished flute. Cut and smoothed at both ends, there are no perforations. There is one crack that runs from end to end.
Unfinished needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is no eye at the proximal end, some chipping.
Complete needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is a visible repair at the midpoint of the needle, where previously broken. There is a large, rough eye near the proximal end.
Complete needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is no eye at the proximal end, which is chipped.
Unfinished needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp, no eye at proximal end.
Unfinished needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp, with no eye at the proximal end.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp, no eye at proximal end.
Unfinished needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp, no eye at proximal end. Cracked along length.
Unfinished needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end is slightly reduced in thickness, with a long "V" shaped notch cut into it.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness is reduced at the proximal end
Unfinished needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is pointed, but blunt. There is a slight curve to the shaft and no eye at the proximal end.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker. Pointed at both ends and manufactured from hollow bone. Split at one end.
Worked bone, length of hollow bone decorated with groups of three striations at even spaces down each side. One end is heavily chipped and cracked.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There are groups of notches along the top and bottom. Ten groups, each with between five and nine notches. Epiphysis remaining on the proximal end.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Complete needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is a small section of chevron patterned striations on the proximal end below the eye. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end.