Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Kā taputapu
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Mid-grey in colour.
Chalcedony flake. Mid brown in colour. There is weathering on two sides.
Stone flake.
Taoka Māori
Worked slate, surface ground except where broken.
Broken adze, butt remaining. Cross-section is oval. Surface partially ground, with bruising flaking, poll end is flaked.
Pounamu flake.
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Mid red and mid orange in colour.
Chalcedony flake. Mid grey in colour. Weathering on one side.
Broken adze, fragment of cutting edge remaining. Surface is ground, with some bruising. Bevel is demarcated from blade by a line. What remains of cutting edge is sharp and curved.
Silcrete drill point. Mid-red in colour. Proximal and distal ends flat. Weathering on distal end.
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.
Mostly complete sinker, portion of one side missing. Shallow transverse lashing groove
Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove. Bruising present at two ends
Complete sinker with very faint transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with faint quartered lashing groove.
