Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
One-piece fishhook, with very end of tip chipped off. Point, shank and base remaining. There is an external knob on head.
Shank fragment with head, shank and partial base remaining. Head has external knob.
Complete curved fishhook point, with an external barb at the tip and external notches at the base.
Broken curved fishhook point, all remaining except base.
Complete bird spear point. There are seven barbs. Small fragment missing from base of shaft.
Mostly complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone, one end broken at the tip.
Mostly complete threader, small chip at proximal end.
Mostly complete fish gorge. Manufactured from hollow bone, one point is missing it's tip.
Taoka whakarākei
Incomplete bone pendant, rounded at one end and tapering to a point at the other end. Drill mark at the rounded end indicating an unfinished suspension hole. Notch on one side of the pointed end.
Unfinished fishhook point, barb at tip with some shallow notches on external side of base. Below notches there is a length of unworked bone.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete straight fishhook point, with external notches and an external barb at the tip, and external notches at the base.
Broken bone pendant, distal end remaining. Curved and coming to a point.
Complete one-piece fishhook. The shank has an upper, internal notch and the head has external notches.
Broken shank, upper remaining. Single notch on upper external side, with serrations before the break at lower end.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and a perforation at the base. It has a lower, external notch and a second external notch just slightly higher. Above the higher notch the point is serrated to the tip.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches. The internal side is serrated from the barb to the tip and the external side is serrated from the notches to the tip.
Broken needle. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end broken at eye.
Broken straight fishhook point with the point remaining. The internal side is partially serrated and it has a middle, internal barb.