Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete one-piece fishhook. External serrations. Barbed on point and on head. Bait hook at base.
Taoka Puoro
Complete flute. There are four perforations, three along the top and one at the end. There are several longitudinal cracks, one along the bottom runs almost the length of the flute. Bone appears burned.
Broken toggle, both ends heavily chipped. There is a single perforation. At one end there are striations decorating the edge.
Complete bone point. Sides and end rough, tip is sharp.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external side of base, small external barb near tip. Serrations from external notches to tip. Internal barb, with internal side reduced. Serrations from internal barb to tip.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Complete fishhook point, barbed and straight with notches at base.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches.
Bone bird spear point. Two barbs. Notches at base.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and a lower external and external basal notch.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with serrations along one side from base to tip. Small part of barb not present.
Broken fishhook point, base remaining. Notches on external side of base, internal side of base reduced.
Complete fishhook point, straight with notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point with reduction near base.
Broken curved fishhook point, tip not present.
Complete fishhook point. Curved with drill work at base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Knobs at mid-point and serrations from mid-point to tip. Burnt.
Complete curved fishhook point with reduction at base.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining.