Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
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David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Mātai Whaipara Takata
Kā taputapu
Broken adze (portion of upper butt remaining). Basalt. Mid grey and light grey. Cross-section is roughly oval. Surface is bruised on front and proper right side, back flaked.
Taoka Māori
Hollow seal tooth
Mostly complete shellfish picker or awl. Epiphysis on proximal end, with a short fine needle distal end.
Broken stone adze, lower blade only Circular The surface is bruised with heavy flaking around poll. Undifferentiated butt. The bevel is demarked by a ridge running the whole circumference of the adze. The cutting edge is curved and sharp.
Large seal tooth, split in half.
Fishhook tab, rounded into one-piece shape. Drill marks on one side, workings at top for head of shank.
Mostly complete bone point, chipped at distal end.
Complete curved fishhook point, large base.
Complete bone point. Distal end reduced to a fine point.
Complete shank. Knobs on external side of shank head. Perforation through base, with two notches, one on either side of perforation, on external side of shank.
Broken curved fishhook point. Perforation through base, two notches on external side of base. Tip of point is broken.
Broken roughout. Basalt. Mid grey, light grey. Cross-section is oval. Surface is flaked. Pwea written on one side.