Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Mostly complete fish gorge, fragment missing along one side.
He kura
Incomplete straight bone pendant. Rounded at one end and coming to a point at an oblique angle at the other end. Slight indentation on one side.
Broken needle, shaft and distal end remaining, in two pieces broken at mid point. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end is broken at the eye.
Furniture
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine point.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bird bone. One end is split and worked to a blunt point.
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, worked to a blunt point at one end.
Piece of hollow bird bone, broken and worked to a sharp point at one end.
Piece of hollow bird bone, broken and split at each end. One end has been filed to a sharp point
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken at each end and worked to a blunt point on one end.
Mostly complete threader, broken around the proximal end.
Complete threader.
Unfinished toggle. Finished at one end, chipped at the other. Crack running length of toggle.
Complete bird spear point, manufactured from moa bone. There are notches on both side of the base, and barbs on both sides of the shaft towards the distal end.
Broken large shank fragment, fragment missing from side and head slightly broken. Notches around front and side of base.
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole and coming to a point at one end.
Mostly complete fishhook point, tip end not present. Internal barb near tip, external notches on lower point.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining. Manufactured from the jaw of a dog.
