Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Broken fishhook tab. Top, bottom and external side are smoothed, circular drill marks along internal side.
Broken fishhook tab. Top, bottom and external side are shaped and smoothed. Circular drill marks along broken edge.
Fishhook tab, one-piece fishhook piece in process of manufacture. There is a large perforation in the centre of the tab.
Cut length of worked moa bone.
Broken tab. Lower and external sides are smoothed. There are circular drill marks along the broken edge.
Smoothed at one end, and partially on the sides, broken at the opposite end.
Worked piece of moa bone. Groove on the surface at one end.
Fragment of worked bone, smoothed on one end.
Complete bone pendant in the shape of a fishhook shank. Two knobs at head and slightly curved toward base. Internal bone structure is visible throughout.
Complete kinked bone pendant. Knob at proximal end on the side of the suspension hole.
Complete flute. There are four perforations, three along the top of the flute, and one at the end on the side. The entire surface is decorated with striations that wrap around the flute going in both directions that create a crosshatched pattern.
Complete bone pendant. Kinked with a suspension hole at proximal end and slightly curved to a point at distal end.
Partially manufactured fishhook with drill work at centre.
Moa bone, possible fishhook tab. No drill marks.
Broken straight fishhook point, tip not present.
Small bone bird spear point, made from bird bone. Long pointed shaft. Concave in cross section. Six barbs near point. Upper four barbs are broken off, bottom two remain intact.
Small bone bird spear point, made from bird bone. Pointed shaft. Concave in cross section. Six barbs along shaft.
Fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook.
Partially manufactured tab.
Bone shank of composite fishhook. The cross section is triangular. The head has one perforation and the base has two perforations. There is a dried adhesive on the back face.
