Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
He kura
Complete pendant made from an animal tooth. Surface has been smoothed, flattened at the root. Tooth has been cut so that tip is not longer present. Unusual in that suspension hole has been drilled into the tooth rather than at the root like most pendants.
Taoka Māori
Broken seal tooth, half of tooth tip and distal portion of root remaining. Large cut mark where the tip meets the root.
Complete curved fishhook point. Perforation through base. Serrations along external and internal sides.
Complete kinked bone pendant with suspension hole.
Dog tooth pendant
Complete pendant made from a curved seal tooth. Suspension hole at root. Hollow.
Curved whale ivory pendant, broken along one side of the proximal end. Drill mark indicating a broken suspension hole.
Complete curved fishhook point, Manufactured from a dog tooth.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point. Perforation through base. Two small external barbs, with serrations between.
Complete bone pendant in the shape of a koru spiral.
Complete seal tooth pendant. Curved with broken suspension hole at root.
Pendant made from a seal tooth. Two cut rectangular suspension holes at the root. Crack along one side from root to tip.
Complete pendant made from a whale tooth. Knob, notches, and suspension hole at the end of the root. Some reduction on tooth end. Slightly curved to a dull point.
Tooth pendant with broken suspension hole at the root. Flattened distal end.
Whale tooth pendant. Curved to a point at one end. Suspension hole on one side of root.
Portion of solid seal tooth, broken at each end.
Seal tooth, hollow root remaining. Saw marks at the each end.
Broken seal tooth, split along one side of the root.
Pacific
Tabua, ceremonial whale tooth pendant
