Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining. Bottom of base broken.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip, serrations at base.
Bone bird spear point, broken at the base. Five barbs. Notches along both sides from mid-shaft to the base.
Complete fishhook point, barbed and mostly straight with notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point, chipped at base.
Complete straight fishhook point. Tip end not present. Curved reduction on external side of base.
Bone bird spear point, small part of tip not present. Three barbs.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Piece of bone, broken in half and worked to a broken point at each end.
Broken threader, tip remaining.
Complete bone bird spear point. Four barbs.
Worked piece of hollow bone, one end sharpened to a point with a crack running the length.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, but no eye.
Broken needle, proximal end remaining. Long, sawn eye at the proximal end.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end features a drilled, circular eye.
Taoka whakarākei
Broken bone comb, three of six teeth broken off. Proximal edge is rounded with a large chip missing off of one side. Surface is smooth with polishing marks evident.
Complete gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete gorge, manufactured from hollow bone. There are striations around the hollow opening at one end.
Broken curved fishhook point, midsection remaining.
