Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Broken curved fishhook point, tip remaining.
Complete seal tooth. Reduced and worked around the distal end of the root. Surface polished.
Complete point.
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 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 shark tooth pendant. Small suspension hole at the centre of the root. Root appears to have been painted red, possibly to resemble sealing wax? Naturally-occurring serrations running along both sides from the gum line to the tip.
Mostly complete shark tooth pendant with broken suspension hole and red sealing wax at the root.
Complete ivory pendant. Suspension hole at the proximal end and curved to a point at the distal end.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notches on the external side of the base. Small hollow on the the external side of the tip that opens onto the naturally hollow interior of the tooth.
Broken curved fishhook point, tip remaining. The base is broken off, with a partial perforation on one side. There are serrations on the external side.
Broken curved fishhook point, tip remaining. The base is broken off. There are serrations on the internal and external sides.
Broken curved fishhook point. Partial perforation at base.
World, Decorative Art
Manjū netsuke / toggle with river scene
Kagamibuta netsuke / toggle with pierced design
