Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken one-piece fishhook, base remaining. Large base, with cracks running through.
Broken fishhook, part of shank remaining. Straight with triangular cross-section.
Straight complete fishhook.
Complete curved fishhook. Notch on lower external face.
Curved Fishhook point. Missing tip.
Partially manufactured fishhook point.
Unidentified fishhook fragment
Mostly complete straight fishhook point, all remaining except very upper tip. Internal and external barb with knob on internal side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point with large notch on one side and barb on the other.
Complete straight fishhook point with 1 notch at base and barb at point end.
Broken needle, shaft and distal end remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Curved fishhook point fragment, base and most of point present, tip is not present. Notches on external side of base.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of straight bone, hollow at one end and split at the other end, worked to a point.
Complete curved bone point. Distal end is sharpened. There are striations on the front surface near the proximal end.
Piece of straight, hollow bone, one end is split and worked to a point.
Incomplete curved fishhook point with base missing. External barb present.
Straight piece of bone.
Broken needle, manufactured from hollow bone. The distal end is sharp. There is a fragment missing from the proximal end, possibly a broken eye.
Broken threader, long portion remaining with sharpened distal end. Broken around the proximal end.
