Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken, curved fishhook with the base and shank remaining.
Broken threader, sharpened end remaining.
Partially manufactured fishhook showing drill work
Worked bone, shaped for fishhook tab. No drill marks on surface, rounded at end.
Worked bone, shaped into tab shape. No drill marks across surface, but end rounded.
Worked bone, shaped tab. Rounded at one edge.
Broken fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Broken curved fishhook point, upper remaining.
Complete bone bird spear point. Three barbs.
Mostly complete fish gorge, one end slightly chipped.
Complete curved fishhook point. Curved notch on external side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point. External notches on side of base. Internal barb near tip.
Shank fragment, possibly of one-piece fishhook, shank remaining broken at base. Knobs at head.
Shank fragment, possibly of one-piece fishhook, shank remaining, broken at base. Three knobs at head.
Broken threader, pointed at both ends, one tip broken off.
Broken threader, long portion remaining, proximal end. There are five notches at the proximal end.
Broken threader, one sharpened end remaining.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of straight, hollow bone. Split about midway down the shaft and filed to a point at one end.
