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After Dark – Neon Nights
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Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp.
Broken needle, shaft and tip remaining. Distal end is sharp. The proximal end is broken at the eye.
Unfinished needle, distal end is sharp. There is a slight reduction at the proximal end.
Broken needle. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end is broken at the eye.
Complete point. End of shaft is smoothed and finished, the other end is sharpened to a point, the tip of which is broken off.
Bone point. Tip is sharpened.
Complete bone point. Pointed at one end, and finished at the other. Point is dulled.
Straight bone point. Tip is sharp, the other end is rough and broken.
Complete bone point. The tip is pointed, the other is finished and smoothed. Cutting mark at this end.
Complete bone point. Tip is pointed, the other end is finished and smoothed.
Bone point. Tip is pointed.
Mostly complete bone point or shellfish picker, manufactured from hollow bone. Broken around the proximal end.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker. Manufactured from slender hollow bone. There are two visible repairs where previously broken.
Complete threader. There is a longitudinal crack from distal to proximal end.
Incomplete adze, broken at the poll. Black and green pounamu. The cross-section is quadrangular. The surface is mostly ground with flake scars. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The sides of the blade taper from the middle of the blade towards the poll. The bevel is demarcated by an oblique straight ridge. The cutting edge is sharp and irregular, with flake scars on the left and right.
Complete straight fishhook point. Knob at very bottom at external base, with notches until barb, serrated from this barb to tip along external side. Smaller internal barb, with serrations from below barb to tip.
Complete straight fishhook point, possibly broken around base. Serrations from lower edge to tip, with two internal barbs. External barb about midway, with serrations from this barb to tip.
Complete straight fishhook point. Small notches becoming serrations, very fine near tip. Internal barb about midway, with fine serrations from barb to tip.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external side of base, with internal barb.
Broken fishhook point, base remaining. Large notched knob on external side of base. Serrations beginning before break.