Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken curved fishhook point, tip remaining. Manufactured from dog tooth.
Complete curved fishhook point. Made from jaw, partial tooth remaining.
Dog bone, broken at one end.
Complete curved fishhook point made from a jawbone. Teeth socket perforations along base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Made from animal jaw, teeth perforations along side.
Broken incisor from a pig, proximal end remaining. Broken end has irregular grooves and ridges with pulp exposed.
Complete composite fishhook. Shank is manufactured from a boar tusk. Point is manufactured from an iron nail bent inwards at the base and then straight at the tip. The tip is attached to the point with muka. There is twisted muka at the proximal end of the shank for the line, with a knot at the end.
Complete seal tooth. Reduced and worked around the distal end of the root. Surface polished.
Seal tooth, which has been filed smooth at the base of the root.
Complete whale tooth
Complete worked whale tooth, one side of distal end has been flattened.
Complete dog jaw mandible. Missing front teeth and rear most tooth, six teeth remaining.
He kura
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole at proximal end.
Set of three seal teeth. All are hollow and broken at the root.
Complete ivory pendant, curved with suspension hole at proximal end.
Complete curved fishhook point. Manufactured from a canine jaw.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower portion remaining. Manufactured from canine jaw.
Broken fishhook tab, centre drilled out, external edges shaped. Manufactured from dog jaw, there are fragments of teeth remaining.
Complete ivory pendant. Suspension hole at the proximal end and curved to a point at the distal end.
Worked length of dog jaw, smoothed at the bottom of the jaw.
