Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Kā taputapu
Rock core. Light grey and dark brown in colour.
Rock core. Mid green and white in colour. Cortex present on two sides.
Rock core. Mid grey and mid brown in colour. Cortex present on one side.
Dark green rock core. Small brown pits/dots. No visible cortex.
Yellow/dark brown silcrete core. Cortex on the dorsal face.
A complete silcrete blade, grey in colour. Unifacial retouch on the right lateral side.
Complete silcrete blade. Dark red in colour.
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.
Complete sinker with shallow diagonal lashing groove.
Broken sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.
Light grey silcrete core. No visible cortex.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Mid-grey in colour.
Stone flake.
Taoka Māori
Worked slate, surface ground except where broken.
Broken adze, butt remaining. Cross-section is oval. Surface partially ground, with bruising flaking, poll end is flaked.
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Mid red and mid orange in colour.
Broken adze, fragment of cutting edge remaining. Surface is ground, with some bruising. Bevel is demarcated from blade by a line. What remains of cutting edge is sharp and curved.
Silcrete drill point. Mid-red in colour. Proximal and distal ends flat. Weathering on distal end.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Unifacial retouch on the dorsal face. Light green, grey in colour.
Broken sinker with faint transverse lashing groove
