Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Mahi kai ki uta
Broken slate knife, distal end remaining. Surface is grounded on both sides. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.
Broken slate knife. Distal end remaining. Surface is grounded on both sides. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete soapstone pendant. Light grey and light brown. Surface has been ground smooth. Off-centre suspension hole, drilled from both sides. Proximal edge is rounded and distal edge is straight with a sawing mark.
Kā taputapu
Complete silcrete blade. Mid orange in colour. Unifacial retouching on the dorsal surface of both lateral margins.
Silcrete flake. White in colour.
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Light grey in colour.
Silcrete drill point. Light yellow in colour.
Complete silcrete blade. Light yellow in colour.
Complete silcrete blade. Light pink in colour. Several inclusions on the dorsal surface. Weathering at the distal end. Bifacial retouch on the proper left lateral margin.
Rākau o te riri
Complete patu onewa. Butt is squared off. Two horizontal grooves and vertical notches on the proximal edge. Two semicircles are incised on one side below the proximal edge. Notches down on each of the four corners of the proximal end. Butt flares out slightly below these notches, with a perforation drilled from both sides. Five notches on each side edge where the handle meets the blade.
Broken silcrete blade, chipped at the proximal and distal ends. Mid brown and light brown in colour. Discolouration on the dorsal surface that appears to be dark soil/or charcoal? Slight to no evidence of retouch on the right side of the blade on the dorsal surface.
Complete soapstone pendant. Light green-brown colour. Oblong shape, slightly tapered at one end, with a square cross section. Surface has been ground. Suspension hole in the centre of the pendant. Four edges have long serrated notches along them.
Complete silcrete cylindrical core. Flake scars evident on sides.
Complete silcrete blade. Light grey in colour. Proper right lateral margin is reduced at mid-blade.
Split silcrete blade, proper left lateral margin remaining. Dark grey in colour.
Grey silcrete core. No visible cortex. A reddish colour.
Yellow silcrete core. Cortex on the dorsal surface.
Grey Silcrete core. Cortex on the dorsal and ventral faces.
Broken or unfinished soapstone pendant, broken at the proximal end. Human leg form. Light brown and mid-brown. Buttocks, knee, and foot indicated by projections and corresponding indentations on side edges.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Dark red in colour. Unifacial retouch on one lateral margin.