Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken bird spear point. Tip and middle of the shaft remains, with two barbs.
Complete straight fishhook point with very wide notch at base portion. Serrations are present from barb to the end point. Note: bone has broken and been glued back together just near the barb area.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete tattoo chisel. There are three deep curved notches on each side and the poll end of the chisel, forming two prongs. There are fine, sharp teeth along the cutting edge.
Complete curved fishhook point. There are serrations from the tip to 2.5cm from base on external side.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine point. Epiphysis remains at the proximal end.
Complete, curved fishhook point. It has an internal barb in the middle of the point and lower, external notches.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, external barb and lower, external notches.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end.
Complete one-piece fishhook with incurved point, shank knob and external knob at head.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight bone, worked to a blunt point.
Broken curved shank. Fragment is missing from head, though shaping where knob meets head is remaining. Small notch just before break at base.
Complete, curved fishhook point fragment.
Complete straight fishhook point with internal barb and serrations on external side of point and internal side of tip.
Broken bone pendant or cloak pin, proximal portion not present. Straight and tapered to a point at the distal end. Surface is polished.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notch on external side near point.
Broken curved fishhook point, tip remaining. Wide, flat base.
Complete bone pendant. Suspension hole at proximal end. Kinked at mid-shaft and foot-shaped distal end.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and a perforation at the base. It has a long notch on the external side of the base.
