Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
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David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Kā taputapu
Complete roughout. Stone. Green and brown. Surface is flaked and bruised. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, front slopes down towards poll. Bevel is demarcated by a ridge at chin. Cutting edge is blunt and curved, both unfinished.
Complete silcrete blade. Light grey and light brown in colour. Bifacial retouching on both lateral margins and either end.
Mahi whakairo
Complete stone gouge. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with flaking on the cutting edge. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved ad blunt.
Complete adze with part of the butt missing on the proper right side. Cross-section is rectangular. The surface is mainly bruised with minor flaking on the poll. Very small shoulder between the butt and the blade on the proper left side, proper right side of the butt is missing. The side slightly tapers in after the shoulder. The blade is demarcated by an oblique line at the chin. The cutting edge is oblique and sharp with a small chip on the proper left side.
Mahi kai ki uta
Complete slate knife. Surface is ground on both sides. Cutting edge is blunt and curved, with bevel on one surface. Haft end is curved.
Broken schist knife, proximal end remaining. Surface is ground on both sides. Cutting edge is not present. Haft end is curved.
Complete schist knife. Surface is bruised on both sides. Cutting edge is sharp and curved, with bevel on one side. Haft end is flat.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal end remaining. Mid grey and mid brown in colour.
Silcrete flake. Dark purple and mid grey in colour.
Red silcrete core. Cortex on the right lateral margin.
Broken and split silcrete blade, medial portion and proper right lateral margin remaining. Light grey and light orange in colour. Bifacial retouch on the right lateral margin. Unifacial retouch along the split left lateral margin.
Brown silcrete core. Cortex on the dorsal face.
Broken and split silcrete blade, medial portion and proper right lateral margin remaining. Light brown in colour.
Split silcrete blade, proper left lateral margin remaining. Light grey and white in colour.
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Light brown and light grey in colour. Unifacial retouch present on both lateral margins on the ventral side.
Broken and split silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining and lower proper left lateral margin not present. Unifacial retouch present on proper left lateral margin on ventral side.
Complete silcrete blade. Light grey and mid grey in colour. Unifacial retouch present on one lateral margin on the dorsal side.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Mid grey and light brown in colour. Flake scars present on dorsal surface.
Incomplete silcrete blade. Proximal portion present. Mid grey and mid orange in colour. Cortex present on the striking platform . Bifacial retouch on one lateral margin.
Complete slate knife. Surface is grounded and flaked on one side, and grounded and burised on the other. Cutting edge is sharp, curved and chipped, with bevel on both surfaces. Haft is curved.