Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external lower side.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb near tip.
Broken, fishhook point fragment with the tip missing. The upper point is serrated on the exterior side.
Broken fishhook point, base and mid point remaining, tip not present.
Complete bird spear point. Six barbs run the length of the shaft.
Mostly complete threader, broken around the proximal end. There are two striations in the surface at the proximal end.
Complete fish gorge. Small notch on one side at one end.
Mostly complete fish gorge, fragment missing along one side.
Taoka whakarākei
Incomplete straight bone pendant. Rounded at one end and coming to a point at an oblique angle at the other end. Slight indentation on one side.
Broken needle, shaft and distal end remaining, in two pieces broken at mid point. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end is broken at the eye.
Mostly complete threader, broken around the proximal end.
Complete threader.
Unfinished toggle. Finished at one end, chipped at the other. Crack running length of toggle.
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole and coming to a point at one end.
Mostly complete fishhook point, tip end not present. Internal barb near tip, external notches on lower point.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Incomplete curved one-piece fishhook. Incurved point has broken off, as-well as at base portion. Notch present at base portion also.
Complete bird spear point. There are five barbs. The lowest barb is serrated along the top edge, both sides of the lower point are serrated.
