Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Kā taputapu
Silcrete core that is dark grey and mid brown in colour. There is no cortex present.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Mid grey and light brown in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins. Flake scars on dorsal surface.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Mid brown in colour. Unifacial retouch on the proper right lateral margin and bifacial retouch on the proper left margin on the dorsal side. Flake scars on both surfaces.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Dark grey and dark brown in colour. Unifacial retouch on both lateral margins on the dorsal surface. Flake scars on dorsal surface.
Complete silcrete blade. Mid grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on the proper left lateral margin.
Mahi kai ki uta
Fragment of a slate knife, no discernable edges. Surface is grounded on both sides.
Fragment of a schist knife, no discernable edges. Surface is grounded on both sides.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Black and light grey. Mid brown inclusion on dorsal surface. Flake scars on dorsal surface. Retouch on left lateral margin and on bulb of percussion.
Silcrete core. White in colour.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Dark grey and mid grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on one lateral margin, and split on the other.
Complete silcrete blade. Mid red and mid brown in colour. There are a few small flake scars on the proper right side of the dorsal surface.
Silcrete core, light core in colour. Cortex present on one face
Complete white silcrete blade. Dorsal surface contains a lot of flake scarring. There is unifacial retouch on the ventral face of the right lateral margin.
Silcrete flake. Black and mid grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins.
Mid grey silcrete flake. Weathering present on dorsal surface.
Incomplete mid grey silcrete blade, missing tip/point on the distal end. Heavy flake scarring on the dorsal surface. Unifacial retouch on the ventral surface of the left lateral margin.
Taoka Māori
Silcrete tool. Dark grey and light brown in colour. Cortex present on dorsal surface. Bifacial retouch present on rounded edge.
Silcrete flake. Light grey and mid grey in colour.
Complete silcrete blade. Dark grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on both lateral margins, dorsal surface.
Incomplete dark grey silcrete blade. Missing distal portion. There is some other little pieces of silcrete suck inside that make it stand out on the ventral surface.