Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Partially manufactured fishhook, showing drill work in the centre.
Large moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
Complete moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
Broken moa bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is pointed.
Complete toggle, with chipping on either end. There is a single perforation. There is a large crack on either side of the perforation, there is adhesive in the crack. There is a smaller crack opposite the large one.
Complete toggle. Finished at both ends. There is one complete perforation, and a partial perforation at one end. There are deep striations, cutting marks, across the surface.
Broken fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook. External edge is rounded, drill marks along internal edge.
Partially manufactured fishhook
Partially manufactured fishhook with drilling marks around inner edge.
Partially manufactured hook with evidence of notching on one side.
Bone harpoon head. Projection at the base and single stout barb. Groove below the barb for the top of the shaft. Perforation at the head.
Partially manufactured fishhook with sawing marks.
Partially manufactured hook. Centre of the tab still remaining.
World
Unfinished toggle. Cut at one end. No perforations.
Complete bird spear point, manufactured from moa bone. There are notches on both side of the base, and barbs on both sides of the shaft towards the distal end.
Broken large shank fragment, fragment missing from side and head slightly broken. Notches around front and side of base.
Moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
Complete curved fishhook point, notched on lower external base.
