Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken fishhook tab, upper portion remaining. External edges have been smoothed, no drill marks.
Partially manufactured fishhook.
Small fishhook tab.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the lower point and part of the base remaining.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the base and point remaining. It has a knob on the base.
Broken, curved fishhook with the base and point remaining. It has a interior, upper barb on the point.
Broken, curved fishhook with the base and point remaining.
Complete, curved fishhook point. It has an upper, external barb and lower, external notches.
Complete, curved fishhook point. It has an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches.
Broken, curved fishhook point .
Complete curved fishhook point. Reduction around base
Complete toggle, chipped at both ends, with one end missing a fragment. There is a single perforation. The surface is decorated with striations in a cross-hatched pattern. Bone is burned.
Complete curved fishhook point. Serrations along external side of point.
Broken one-piece fishhook, shank above base remaining. Curved with knob on head.
Taoka whakarākei
Bone pendant, broken at the suspension hole on the proximal end. Curved to a point on the distal end.
Complete tattoo chisel. The hafting end has sides that reduce to the end, with a perforation through the surface. The cutting end is sharp and curved, with small teeth. Cutting marks for the teeth on the back of the comb.
Complete composite fishhook point. Curved with internal barb and external notches at base.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment. All remaining but end of base. Perforation at base. Serrated bait knob on one side of shank.
Broken bone pendant, proximal end remaining. Curved with a suspension hole.
