Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a sawn, long eye near the proximal end that is also sharp. The eye is filled in with an old, dried substance.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, featuring a drilled circular eye.
Unfinished needle, sharp at both ends. One end is chipped, one side with one notch, the other with two notches. No eye.
Taoka whakarākei
Bone pendant, broken at the suspension hole. Knob part-way down. Curved to a point.
Complete bone pendant. Kinked in two places down the shaft. Broken suspension hole.
Broken bone pendant in three pieces. Straight with suspension hole.
Broken needle, broken at eye. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end, broken at the very end.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end. Small fragment missing from proximal end.
Complete ivory pendant. Suspension hole at the distal end. Groove along interior curve.
Complete bone pendant. Curved with broken suspension hole.
Complete curved bone pendant with drilled suspension hole.
Complete bone pendant. Suspension hole at proximal end. Split along mid-shaft to distal tip.
Complete pendant made from an ivory tooth. Slightly curved with suspension hole at proximal end. Reduced and grooved on one side.
Complete ivory pendant, curved with suspension hole at proximal end.
Bone comb. Broken at various points on the teeth and glued back together; proper right tooth is incomplete. Head is square with a small rounded projection on one side edge at the proximal end. Surface is smooth with polishing marks evident. Back side has a horizontal sawing mark visible above the teeth and on the side of the left tooth.
Complete bone comb. Head is squared off with a small rounded projection on the proximal edge. Horizontal sawing marks visible on proximal edge and just above teeth. Four teeth are all intact, although one has been broken and glued back together.
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole at the proximal end and tapered to a point at the distal end.
Bone pendant, broken at the proximal end. Four notches at the proximal end. "X" cut marks along the sides.
Whalebone pendant with broken suspension hole at the proximal end. Slightly reduced and flattened at the distal end. Circular cross section.