Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken, curved fishhook point with the tip missing. It has two exterior notches in the middle of the point.
Curved fishhook point, either unfinished or worn. Tip is rounded, not obviously broken.
Complete, curved fishhook with a lower, external barb.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining. Previously broken near tip, glued together.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the upper point and tip missing. It has a lower, exterior barb and the exterior side of the point is serrated above the tip. At the base there is a perforation although a bit of it has broken off.
Broken curved fishhook point, all present except base.
Broken gorge, one sharpened end remaining.
Complete, straight fishhook with a lower, internal barb.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends, with a deep striation at one end.
Complete curved fishhook point with no visible features.
Complete gorge, sharpened at both ends.
Bone bird spear point, broken at both ends. Two barbs. Serrations along barbed side.
Broken needle, distal end remaining. Distal end is sharp. There is a sawn, long eye, broken.
Broken bird spear point, with shaft and tip remaining. Small in dentations on edges near base.
Kā taputapu
Incomplete adze - blade extant. Oval Bruised and flaked. Butt not present. Bevel demarcated by faint curved line running from corner to corner. Cutting edge is sharp, rough and rounded.
Broken bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened.
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is pointed.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. The proximal end is wide and unperforated.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.