Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete awl or shellfish picker. Sharpened distal end, manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker. Sharpened distal end, manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete bone point or shellfish picker. Pointed at both ends. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Broken bone point or shellfish picker. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete shellfish picker. Pointed at both ends, one end very fine and sharp.
Mostly complete bone point or shellfish picker. Chipped at one end. Manufactured from hollow bone.
Complete curved fishhook point fragment. All remaining bit tip of point and end of base. Notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Reduction at base.
Broken straight fishhook point fragment. All remaining but end of base. Internal barb at point. Notch at base.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment. All remaining but tip of point. Base perpendicular to the rest. Notch at base.
Mostly complete awl, chipped at the proximal end. Distal end is long and pointed.
Broken bone awl or shellfish picker. Manufactured from hollow bone. Epiphysis on the proximal end.
Complete tattoo needle. Needle portion approximately 1cm long.
complete straight fishhook point. Very wide base flattened on the sides.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bone pendant. Mostly straight, but slightly curved at the distal end. Suspension hole which has been drilled with a metal tool.
Broken fishhook, shank remaining.
Broken fishhook point, mid-point remaining.
World
Complete bone pendant. Knob at one end and curved to a point at other end. Serrations along both sides.
