Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete one-piece fishhook, with faint external serrations and an incurved point.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external notch at the base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external serrations from tip to base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external serrations from top of point to base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point, with external serrations.
Broken curved fishhook point, with external serrations. Tip and base both not present.
Fishhook fragment - there is a knob at one end, with serrations along the opposite side.
Incomplete straight fishhook point. Tip remains with serrations on both sides. Base not present.
Complete curved fishhook point. An external barb with external serrations is present at the point, and there are internal serrations from the point to the base.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment, with tip, point and partial base remaining.
Broken one-piece fishhook, with head, shank and base remaining. Point not present. There is an external knob at the head and an internal barb at the midpoint of the shank.
Broken one-piece fishhook, point remaining, with incurved tip
Middle piece of tab
Fishhook tab. Shaped into one-piece fishhook, rounded on outside. Head of shank shows some working. Single drill mark through surface.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bone pendant with suspension hole at proximal end and slightly curved to a point at the distal end.
Complete bone point. Pointed at both ends, but one end is sharper than the other.
Broken needle, tip remaining.
Broken needle, tip remaining. Bone is burned.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining. Previously broken near tip, now fixed.
