Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
complete curved fishhook point. Four serrations on external point.
Complete straight fishhook point, with an internal barb at the tip and external notches at the base. There are also small external notches running from the tip down the mid-point.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bone pendant. Suspension hole at one end and slightly curved to a point at the other end.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a point, epiphysis remaining on proximal end.
Mostly complete comb made from a split bone, two of four teeth are broken at the distal end. Remaining teeth come to a point. Head is squared off with sawing mark visible on proximal edge.
Complete curved fishhook point, with serrations from tip to point.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Complete double-ended straight fishhook point. Both ends are complete with a barb and serrations on both sides of the points.
Taoka Puoro
Complete flute. There are three perforations along the top. There are visible repairs where previously broken.
Fishhook fragment, unfinished. Has been broken into two pieces and repaired.
Partially manufactured hook fragment.
Fishhook fragment , unfinished.
Unidentified fishhook fragment.
Broken bone fishhook fragment, unknown portion remaining. Surface is very weather-worn. Base with bait notch remaining, a piece of which is perpendicular to a straight point or shank.
Complete one-piece fish hook, knob and internal barb on the head.
One piece fishhook, unfinished. Broken into two pieces at base with point missing. Drilled hole in base with knob on head. Small piece glued on at base portion.
One-piece fishhook fragment, head, shank and base present, Knob and shank knob on head. One-piece fishhook fragment, tip, point and basal section present.
One-piece fishhook fragment, tip and point present.
Broken shank, fragment of head remaining, knobs.
