Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete needle. Distal end is blunt. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Complete point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. Epiphysis remaining at the proximal end.
Broken bone point, tip remaining.
He kura
Complete bone pendant. Reduced at the proximal end with two notches on one side and coming to a point at the distal end. Four barb-like notches running down one side and single large notch on opposite side, both sides serrated.
Mostly complete bone pendant, small part of distal end broken off. Proximal end is squared off, with a suspension hole drilled from each side. There is a kink carved about halfway down the pendant. Surface is polished.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the tip missing.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining. Small fragment missing from base, tip not present.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Broken fishhook point, base remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present. Small notch on external side just before broken end.