Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete fish gorge. There are notches along both sides.
Bone point, possibly shellfish picker. Slender and long manufactured from hollow bone.
Unfinished curved fishhook point, partially worked internal barb.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of split bone, worked to a blunt, flattened point. Surface around the point has polishing marks evident.
Fragment of broken and split bone, worked to a point at one end.
Piece of hollow bone, worked to a point at one end and filed flat around the edges. Surface is smooth and polished.
Incomplete curved fishhook point fragment with point missing. At point portion there are two holes on the side of hook.
Piece of hollow bone, broken at one end and worked to a blunt point at the other end. Surface around the point has polishing marks evident.
Piece of hollow bone, broken and split at each end. One end is worked to a sharp point. Surface around the point has polishing marks evident.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.
Complete bird spear point. There are four barbs. There are notches either side of the lowest barb.
Broken shank, possibly from one-piece fishhook, broken at head and base.
Broken one-piece fishhook, with base, shank, and head remaining. Knob on external surface, and shank knob partly remaining on internal surface.
Complete straight fishhook point. One notch one internal side of base.
Complete straight fishhook. Barb on internal side of tip, notches on external side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external side of base, with internal barb near tip.
Complete fish gorge.
Mostly complete threader, small fragment missing from the proximal end and tip of point broken.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a sawn, almost circular eye at the proximal end.