Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete straight fishhook point. Barbed with notch at barb. Knob and notch at base.
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp, with a latitudinal groove 37mm from the tip. There is a long, sawn eye near the proximal end that comes to a point.
Incomplete straight fishhook point fragment. Point portion present only.
Complete curved fishhook point with perforation at base end. Barb present on external portion of fishhook.
Complete, curved fishhook point that is made from jaw bone.
Complete, curved fishhook point.
Partially manufactured hook tab. Only one half of the tab is present. Distinct impressions within the internal section.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip. Serrations along base.
Broken fishhook point, broken at base. Previously broken at tip, now fixed. Incurved point.
Fishhook point fragment is curved with all but base remaining.
Complete, curved fishhook point. The exterior side is completely serrated and has an upper barb and a lower notch.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notch on lower side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point, small. Notches on external side of base, internal barb near tip.
Broken fishhook shank, shank remaining, broken at base. Knobs at head.
Unfinished harpoon head with single barb and bifid base. Cross-section is oval. Missing perforation through centre, barb and tip unsharpened.
Broken shank, base with lower shank and point remaining. "Long Beach"
Broken curved fishhook point, broken at base and tip. Small notch at base.
complete curved fishhook point. 4 notches on one edge at the base, one notch on the opposite edge.
