Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal tip is broken off.
Broken awl, chipping around both ends. There is a long perforation that has been created by making many short longitudinal cuts into the surface. There are two unfinished perforations of the same size where the technique is visible on the adjacent side.
Broken awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal tip is broken. Epiphysis on proximal end.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is a latitudinal striation in the surface at the proximal end.
Broken awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Fragments missing from both ends.
Broken awl, medial portion remaining. Repair visible where previously broken. Broken at both ends.
Broken awl, medial portion remaining. Broken at both ends. Longitudinal cracks.
Complete point. Distal end is sharp
Broken awl, medial portion remaining. Broken at both ends.
Broken awl. Shaft remaining, tip of point broken off.
Broken awl, medial portion remaining.
Cut tube of bone.
Broken awl, medial portion remaining. Dirt in hollow.
Broken awl, distal end remaining.
Tube of cut bone.
Broken awl, shaft remaining, tip broken off distal end. The proximal end has been reduced to a knob, with a groove.
Broken awl, medial portion remaining. Dirt on surface and in hollow.
Broken awl, distal end remaining. Broken at the proximal end.
Broken awl, all but tip remaining. Epiphysis on proximal end.