Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Piece of broken bird bone worked to a dull point at one end and filed down and reduced along one side edge
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken at one end and filed at an angle on the other end, tapering to a point.
Broken fishhook point, base remaining. Notches at base.
Complete bone bird spear point with five barbs.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bird bone pendant. Surface is polished. Tapered to a point at the distal end. Rounded at the proximal end, with a suspension hole. A kink is carved in the bone about halfway down the pendant.
Complete but unfinished toggle. Both ends finished, but no perforation.
Unfinished toggle. Finished at both ends, no perforation.
Broken and unfinished toggle, both ends heavily chipped. There is no perforation.
Unfinished toggle. Deep cutting marks at both ends.
Taoka Puoro
Partially manufactured flute.
Complete gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Broken fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of straight bird bone. A small portion near one end is hollow with a crack down the centre. The rest of the piece is split, and it is worked to a point at the other end.
Broken toggle, fragment remaining. One end is finished.
Piece of hollow, straight bird bone. One end is split and worked to a blunt point.
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, worked to a blunt point at one end.
Piece of hollow bird bone, broken and worked to a sharp point at one end.
Piece of hollow bird bone, broken and split at each end. One end has been filed to a sharp point
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken at each end and worked to a blunt point on one end.
