Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end is unperforated, but thickness has been reduced.
Broken bone point, one sharpened end remaining. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone, broken and split at each end. One end has been worked to a point.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp.
Complete awl. Cracks at proximal end.
Broken shank with the head remaining. It has a large internal knob just below the head and a large head with a knob one either side.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a sawn, long eye near the proximal end that is also sharp. The eye is filled in with an old, dried substance.
Taoka Puoro
Complete flute. There are three perforations along the top of the flute, the middle perforation is slightly off-centre. The distal end is chipped.
Broken fish gorge, large. One sharpened end remaining.
Broken straight fishhook point. All remaining except tip. Serration at base on one side.
Complete straight fishhook point with curve at tip. Grooves along external surfaces, and slight notch at base.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with some reduction at base. Straight complete fishhook point. One barb at the point. A reduction on one side near the base.
Whakarite kai
Complete bone one-piece fishhook. Knob and shank knob at the head. Tip is slightly incurved.
Complete, curved fishhook point.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining, base not present.
Complete curved fishhook point. Previously broken in two pieces at the tip and glued back together. Burnt bone.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Broken curved fishhook point, tip not present.
Curved fishhook point, small part of tip broken off Broken curved fishhook point. Base and point present. Burnt.
