Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
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 curved bone pendant with drilled suspension hole.
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole at the proximal end and tapered to a point at the distal end.
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, Costume and Textiles
Tabua, ceremonial whale tooth pendant
Broken seal tooth, split in half, root and small part of tooth tip remaining.
Seal tooth, split in half.
Seal tooth, split in half with exterior side of tooth curve remaining.
Seal tooth, split in half. Interior side has been ground flat.
Seal tooth, split in half and broken along one edge.
Pendant made from a seal tooth, broken at the proximal end. One broken suspension hole and one drill mark indicating an unfinished suspension hole. Curved and hollow.
Complete one-piece fishhook pendant with incurved tip. External edge from tip of point to 1cm below head serrated. Head has a diagonal groove across shank with v projection and external platform like projection with groove around base. Lower rim platform serrated. Suspension hole at head, drilled from both sides.
