Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Unfinished fish gorge, sides rough.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notch on external side of base.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete tattoo chisel. Cutting edge is finished with sharp, small teeth. Sides and hafting end unworked.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone. Split and worked to a point at one end. Surface has evidence of polishing marks on below and around the point.
Broken, straight fishhook point with the base and lower point remaining.
Straight fishhook point with serrations on external side of point and internal side of tip. Notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notches on external lower side, incurved point.
Complete curved fishhook point
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end sharpened.
Mostly complete gorge.
Complete straight fishhook point with internal barb and notches on external side of base.
Broken needle in two pieces. Distal end is sharp.
Complete, curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point, internal barb and notches on external side of base.
Mostly complete bird spear point, small fragment of base of shaft broken off. There are four barbs.
Complete bird bone spear point. Straight with three barbs.
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole, pointed at one end.
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete bone one-piece fishhook. There is a notch at the base of the shank. There is an external knob on the head and an internal notch.
