Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Mahi whakairo
Complete adze. Light grey stone. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground on the blade and bruised on the butt. Sides of the butt are slightly reduced. Bevel is continuous with the blade and concave. Cutting edge is sharp and slightly concave.
Complete Trapezoidal blade. Front of blade is ground with flake scar at top right. Back of blade is also ground. No differentiation between blade and butt. Bevel is continuous on blade. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.
Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is mostly ground. Some natural roughness on upper half of back and on sides. No differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is demarcated by a line, blade is sharp and straight.
Broken adze, small fragment of one side remaining. Surface is ground.
Complete adze. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Sides, back and half of front are rough. Lower half of front is ground. No differentiation between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line, blade is sharp and curved.
Broken adze (blade remaining). Cross-section is asymmetrical. Surface is mostly ground. The proper left side is rough. Butt is not present. Bevel is continuous with blade.
Broken adze, Blade only The cross-section is trapezoidal with back narrower than front at both ends. The surface is mostly ground except for bruising on the sides of the blade. The bevel is demarcated by a small ridge. The cutting edge has been broken off as well as the top of the back of the blade.
Whakarite kai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.
Complete adze, rough out The cross-section is trapezoidal with apex to front at the top and asymmetrical at the bottom. The surface is ground on some parts and flaked. The sides taper towards the poll. There is no obvious bevel. The cutting edge is sharp and curved.
Rough out The cross-section is asymmetrical at both ends. The surface is flaked. No distinction between butt and blade. No distinction between butt and blade.
Broken adze, Butt only The cross-section is plano-convex with front flattened at the bottom and lenticular at the top. The surface is bruised all over with some flake scars. The sides taper towards the poll. There are flake scars on the back and a flake scar on the proper right top of the butt.
Rough out, broken, blade only The cross-section is oval at the bottom of the blade and asymmetrical at the top of the blade. The surface is flaked. There is no obvious bevel. The cutting edge is blunt.
Broken adze, Blade only The cross-section is asymmetrical. The surface is ground on one side and flaked on the other side. There is no obvious bevel. There is a flake scar on the bottom proper right side and the top proper left side of the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and curved and is chipped.
Broken adze, top of blade, bottom of butt The cross-section is rectangular at the top and asymmetrical at the bottom. The surface is mostly bruised. The back is ground.
Complete adze The cross-section is oval at the blade and rectangular at the butt. The surface is mostly bruised. The blade is mostly ground. The sides taper towards the poll. There is no obvious bevel. The cutting edge is curved. There are many small chips.
Complete adze. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is predominantly ground with some chipping along the edges, especially at the back. There is a large, circular chip (23mm diameter) missing from approximately the middle of the proper left side of the back. The butt is undifferentiated. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is straight and sharp.
