Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken curved fishhook point,
Fishhook fragment, missing base and point. Serrations on external side.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining. With notches on lower side of base.
Complete toggle, of unusual flat style, rather than the tube style. All edges are cut, but not very smooth. There is a single large perforation.
Partially manufactured hook.
Broken one-piece fishhook, with incurved point and point remaining. There is an external barb toward the base.
Broken piece of worked bone. Triangular shape, broken at one end and coming to a point at the other end. Serrations along both sides. Probably the base of a bird spear point.
Broken shank with knob, head and part of shaft remaining.
Complete one piece fishhook. External barb present on point. Knob and head present, as well as notch at base.
Broken, straight fishhook point with the base and lower point remaining.
Broken fishhook point, base remaining. Notches on external side of base.
Middle piece of a partially manufactured fishhook.
Broken shank, with point side remaining, broken at base. Slight notches at shank point end for connecting to composite fishhook point.
Broken shank, upper shank remaining, broken before base. Knobs on head.
Complete kahawai lure. Wooden shank with paua shell inlay. Straight bone point with internal barb. Lashings at head and base.
Broken point, distal end remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Broken curved fishhook point, midsection remaining, broken at both ends.
Broken curved fishhook point, possibly of one-piece fishhook. Midsection remaining, broken at both ends.
