Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete fish gorge.
Incomplete straight fishhook point. Fishhook has been broken in half (both fragments are present). Two notches present at the base portion. Point is missing from hook.
Taoka whakarākei
Broken bone pendant, lower portion remaining. Curved to a point at one end. No suspension hole present.
Complete gorge
Complete fish gorge, small, manufactured from hollow bone. One end is chipped, hollow filled with dirt.
Mostly complete fish gorge, one tip broken.
Complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete fish gorge, in two pieces. Visible repair where previously broken.
Complete straight fishhook, serrated internal edge, with barb at tip, with three more serrations till tappers off to tip.
Broken straight fishhook point. There is a barb at the point, with a notch further down toward the base. Base and tip both broken off.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external lower point, upper internal barb.
Complete straight fishhook point. Circular notch on external lower side. Upper internal barb.
Complete straight fishhook point, with internal barb at point, and external notches at base.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb.
Complete curved fishhook point. There are notches on the external side of the base, and one internal barb near the tip.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notches on external lower side. Internal barb.
Unfinished bone comb. Cross section is a half-circle. Proximal end is rounded with a small piece broken off centre. Three vertical cut marks indicate unfinished teeth; one is broken off on proper left side.
Complete bead.