Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
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
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining. Striations across external curve. Manufactured from jawbone.
Mostly complete patu aruhe made of whalebone. Blade has an elliptical perforation through the centre and is heavily reduced on the sides around the perforation. A groove extends from the perforation around the bottom of the blade. Sides of the blade are also reduced where it meets the handle to form shoulders. Small part of the butt has broken off, and there is an indentation around part of the butt that remains. Cross-section is square on the blade and circular on the handle.
Partially manufactured fishhook with drilling marks around inner edge.
Broken fishhook fragment, unidentified portion remaining. Mostly straight with four perforations.
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.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining. Manufactured from the jaw of a dog.
Moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
Complete curved fishhook point, notched on lower external base.
Partially manufactured fishhook with sawing marks
