Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete curved fishhook point, large base.
World
Mostly complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone, tip of one end broken.
Complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone,.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine point.
Large bone point. Surface is polished and smooth. Slight shoulders and reduction at the middle of the point.
Broken bone bird spear point, broken at each end. Two barbs, one on each side of the tip. Four notches on one side.
Complete threader.
Complete bone point. Distal end is sharp.
Complete fish gorge. There are notches along both sides.
Bone point, possibly shellfish picker. Slender and long manufactured from hollow bone.
Broken fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present. Notches on external side of base.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.
Curved piece of worked bone, broken at each end. Possibly a fishhook point.
Partially manufactured fishhook
Broken one-piece fishhook, midsection of point remaining. Base and tip not present. Three notches on external side.
Unfinished curved fishhook point, partially worked internal barb.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of split bone, worked to a blunt, flattened point. Surface around the point has polishing marks evident.
Fragment of broken and split bone, worked to a point at one end.
Piece of hollow bone, worked to a point at one end and filed flat around the edges. Surface is smooth and polished.
