Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook, broken.
Unidentified bone fragment.
Broken fishhook tab, broken along external side, drill marks along internal side.
Broken curved fishhook point, broken at base. Tip is burned.
Broken shank, possibly of unfinished one-piece fishhook. Beginnings of definition around head to make knobs of shank. Bit of bone connecting shank to tip still remaining.
Broken fishhook point, small fragment of midsection remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Complete fishhook tab. Sides are rounded and shaped, with interior section drilled out.
Partially manufactured fishhook
Broken one-piece fishhook, part of tip and head not present. Bait notch at base.
Complete one-piece fishhook. Knob at head and incurved tip.
Partially manufactured one-piece fishhook. Drilled hole in centre.
Complete fishhook point. Barbed with knob at base. Slightly curved.
Complete flute, with small fragments missing from either end. There are three perforations along the top. There is a drill mark at the proximal end. The distal end is darker than the proximal end.
Complete fishhook point. Curved with notches at base.
Fishhook tab, external edges have been partially shaped into fishhook shape. Chip broken off along bottom edge.
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.