Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
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Kā taputapu
Complete silcrete blade. Light orange and light grey in colour. Cortex on one side of the longitudinal ridge on the dorsal surface. Unifacial retouch on one lateral margin on the dorsal side.
Complete schist file, fragment missing around the proximal end. Sides taper towards point, which is slightly bruised and up alont one side.
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Light grey in colour.
Complete schist file (kani). Sides taper towards point, which is bruised along the flatter lateral margin. The other lateral margins curved.
Broken schist file (kani), distal end remaining. Sides taper towards tip.
Broken schist file or polisher (kani), proximal end remaining. There are scrape marks on both flat surfaces, but they are more prominent on one.
Broken schist file. There is a visible repair where previously broken. Distal end of file appears to be broken. One surface of the file is smoothed and flat, the opposite surface rougher and convex.
Mahi kai ki uta
Complete slate knife. Surface is grounded on both sides. Cutting edge is sharp and curved. Haft is flat.
Complete silcrete blade. Mid brown and dark brown in colour. Unifacial retouch on both lateral margins, dorsal surface.
Silcrete flake. Dark brown and mid brown in colour. Bifacial retouch on the proximal end.
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Cream and mid grey in colour.
Silcrete flake. Mid brown and light grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins.
Complete silcrete drill point. Dark grey and mid grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on both lateral margins, dorsal surface. Slight weathering at the proximal end on the dorsal surface.
Taoka Māori
Complete silcrete boring tool. Unifacial retouch around all lateral margins and the distal edge reduced to a point.
Taoka whakarākei
Small oval soapstone pebble. Brown green in colour with hole drilled in centre. Perforation has very straight sides and has been made with metal tools. One side has been ground flat.
Broken slate knife, distal end remaining. Surface is ground on one side and bruised on the other. Cutting edge is sharp but chipped, with a bevel demarcated by a change in surface.
Complete silcrete blade. White in colour. Cortex on the proper right side, on the dorsal surface. Weathering at the proximal and the distal ends as well as the proper left lateral margin. Bifacial retouch on the left lateral margin.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal missing as well as the bulb of percussion. White and light brown in colour. Large piece of quartz on the ventral side, on the proper left side. Evidence of bifacial retouch on the left side.
Complete silcrete blade. Light grey and light brown in colour. Dorsal surface has flake scars and unifacial retouch on both lateral margins, particularly at the medial and distal portions.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Light grey and mid-brown in colour. Large flake scar at the proximal end of the dorsal surface. Unifacial retouch on both lateral margins of the ventral surface.