Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip. Notches at base. Shank knob
Broken straight fishhook point fragment. All remaining but base. Notch at shank.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Broken fishhook point fragment. Base and shank remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment. All remaining but end of base.
Broken fish gorge, one sharpened end remaining.
Middle piece of fishhook tab
Broken needle, shaft and tip remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Broken needle. Distal end is sharp, sides of shaft widening to the proximal end. There is a long, thing eye at the mid point of the needle, the bone is cracked from eye to proximal end.
Complete curved fishhook point fragment.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches at base. End of base broken.
Complete straight fishhook point with 4 notches at base. Barb is present on opposite side towards the point portion.
Complete albatross bone awl. There is a suspension hole at the proximal end. The back of the suspension hole is enlarged by chipping. The distal end is sharpened into a blunt point with worn notches along the edges.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete tattoo chisel. Hafting end has a notch on either side. Cutting end is sharp and curved. There are striations on the lower portion of the chisel, running longitudinally.
Complete but unfinished toggle. Finished at both ends, no perforation. Cracks along surface.
Rākau o te riri
Complete whalebone mere. Surface is ground. There is a perforation drilled at the proximal end. There is major differentiation of the poll, with the butt rounded. The butt has two haehae (carved lines) on the poll. The distal end is rounded and worn. The proper left cutting edge is flattened from wear.
Complete bone point, distal end sharpened, very tip broken off.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone, broken at one end. Other other end has been filed to a blunt point. The surface has evidence of polishing marks, particularly around the point.
Mostly complete bone point, distal tip is broken off.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker. Manufactured from slender hollow bone.
