Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken curved shank with all remaining except base.
Complete curved shank, with knob and head.
Broken fishhook, part of shank remaining. Straight. Knobs at head.
Mostly complete bone bird spear point with two broken barbs and three remaining barbs.
Complete bone bird spear point. Four barbs.
Bone bird spear point, broken at each end. Four barbs.
Taoka whakarākei
Straight bone pendant, mostly complete but broken at each end. Part of suspension hole remaining.
Complete but unfinished toggle, with no perforation.
Bone point, very sharp at the distal end. Broken at the proximal end.
Complete straight fishhook point. End of tip broken, internal barb at tip. External serrations at base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Internal barb at tip, external serrations at base.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip, serrations along one side of base and shank.
Broken barbed fishhook point, tip remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining. External notched bait barb near base. Serrations from barb to broken edge.
Fragment of worked bone. Remaining edge is rounded. Previously broken in several pieces and glued back together.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notch on external side of base. Serrations from notch to tip.
Mostly complete gorge, tip missing from one end.
Complete straight fishhook point, External notches on lower base. Internal barb, uppermost tip broken off.