Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete threader. Proximal end cut with cutting marks around edge, distal end sharpened.
Complete gorge, both ends sharpened.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone. One end is split, tapering to a point, the tip of which has broken off.
Piece of hollow bone, worked to a dull point at one end and reduced at the opening of the other end.
Broken gorge, sharpened at one end, other end broken.
Taoka whakarākei
Broken bone pendant, straight distal end remaining.
Broken one-piece fishhook, shank remaining. Burnt with knob at head. Curved broken fishhook shank. Shank present. Broken at the base. Reduction around the top forming a head and two knobs. Burnt/black.
Broken gorge, partial end remaining. Tip broken off.
Broken gorge, one sharpened end remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, midsection remaining. Broken at both ends, bone is burned towards upper.
Broken bird spear point, lower shaft remaining. Has two barbs.
Broken fishhook fragment, unknown portion remaining. Straight with one end tapering to a broken point.
Incomplete curved fishhook point with no visible features present. Fishhook has broken off towards the base portion.
Incomplete straight fishhook point fragment. 4 notches present at base. Fishhook has broken off towards the point end.
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end sharpened.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp.
Unfinished barbed point, either Birdspear or fishhook. Distal end is shaped with an unfinished barb, rest of point unshaped.
Broken threader, tip remaining.
Broken bone point, tip and shaft remaining. Distal end sharpened.
