Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken point, tip remaining. Point is dull.
Complete bone point. Tip is pointed. Two notches on one side, possibly unintentional.
Broken point. Pointed on one end. At the other end there is a reduction. There is a notch on side.
Tip of point, sharpened.
Complete point. Small sliver of bone, sharpened at both ends.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends.
Taoka Puoro
Partially manufactured flute. Broken, one end remaining. End unfinished, no perforations. One large crack.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. Finished at both ends. Striation towards one end, at broken edge.
Broken flute, fragment of end remaining. Two striations surface near broken edge, one curved line and one straight line.
Piece of broken bird bone worked to a dull point at one end and filed down and reduced along one side edge
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken at one end and filed at an angle on the other end, tapering to a point.
Broken fishhook point, base remaining. Notches at base.
Complete bone bird spear point with five barbs.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bird bone pendant. Surface is polished. Tapered to a point at the distal end. Rounded at the proximal end, with a suspension hole. A kink is carved in the bone about halfway down the pendant.
Complete but unfinished toggle. Both ends finished, but no perforation.
Unfinished toggle. Finished at both ends, no perforation.
Broken and unfinished toggle, both ends heavily chipped. There is no perforation.
Unfinished toggle. Deep cutting marks at both ends.
