New Acquisitions

Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external side of base. External and internal barbs near tip. with serrations on both sides from barbs to tip.

Circular whale vertebra with four drilled holes. The upper hole has an irregular shape. The front face has residual bone remaining.

Worked bone, function unknown, possibly a pendant. Straight with triangular cross-section. One end is cut as an oblique angle and the other end has worn away. Surface is flaking.

Nephrite/pounamu pendant. Light green and silver. Surface is ground. Tapered to the proximal end, with a broken out suspension hole. Distal end has two projections on either side edge, with a curved indentation between them.

Complete bone pendant resembling a fishhook point. Curved with a suspension hole. Sides are barbed and serrated.

Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end.

Chimpanzee skull with the jaw tied in place.

Complete adze. Rectangular at poll, asymmetrical at blade. The surface is ground with flaking on the left side proper, and some bruising on the right side and the poll. Butt undifferentiated. The bevel is demarcated by a ridge, and is slightly curved down to the cutting edge. The cutting edge is smooth, sharp and slightly curved.

Complete pendant in adze shape. Surface is mostly smooth, with flaking around the proximal end. Cross-section is rectangular. At the proximal end there is a perforation. There is no shoulder. Bevel is continuous with blade. The cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Mid green, light green, mid brown, light brown. Cross-section is rectangular. Back of adze is concave. Surface is ground, with some flaking on back edges and on poll, some bruising on bevel. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll and front slopes down towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge is sharp and curved, large chip missing from proper right side of cutting edge. Cutting edge is narrower than widest point of blade.

Dark green rock core. Small brown pits/dots. Cortex on both lateral margins.

Complete ivory pendant. Slightly curved to a point at the distal end. Suspension hole and small notches at proximal end. Small piece broken off and glued back on at proximal end.