Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken bird spear point, distal end with single barb remaining.
Complete barbed bone point with notches at base.
Complete awl. Distal end is reduced to a fine point.
Complete awl. Epiphysis remaining on the proximal end.
Complete bone point. Cutting mark visible at one end, the other end is sharpened into a fine point.
Taoka Puoro
Mostly complete but unfinished flute. One end is chipped. There are no perforations. There are cracks from the chipped end into the middle of the flute.
Awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is pointed. Large fragment missing from proximal end.
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove. Part B: 1x mammal bone
Complete fishhook point. Curved with notches at base.
Fishhook tab, external edges have been partially shaped into fishhook shape. Chip broken off along bottom edge.
Complete toggle, chipped at both ends, with one end missing a fragment. There is a single perforation. The surface is decorated with striations in a cross-hatched pattern. Bone is burned.
Cut length of bone, epiphysis on one end.
Complete awl. Chipped at the proximal end.
Length of worked bone, cut at one end. Partial epiphysis on the other.
Bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Partially manufactured fishhook
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. Epiphysis remaining on proximal end.
Broken awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal tip is broken. Partial epiphysis remaining on proximal end.
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is sharp.
