Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken curved fishhook point, lower remaining, tip not present.
Broken curved fishhook point, mid-section remaining, broken at both ends. Burned bone. Manufactured from jaw.
Fishhook point is complete and curved. The external edge of the tip is serrated. There is a knob at the intersection of the tip and base, and a narrowing of the base.
Fishhook point is complete and curved. The external edge of the tip is serrated, and there is a barb at the intersection of the tip and base.
Complete dog jawbone fishhook point. The hook follows the natural line of the jaw, and is then sharpened to a sharp point. Along the external lateral margin is notching.
Complete curved fishhook point. Made from jaw, partial tooth remaining.
Dog bone, broken at one end.
Complete curved fishhook point. Made of dog jawbone.
Complete dog jaw mandible. Missing front teeth and rear most tooth, six teeth remaining.
Complete curved fishhook point made from a jawbone. Teeth socket perforations along base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Made from animal jaw, teeth perforations along side.
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove. Part B: 1x mammal bone
Partially manufactured fishhook
Taoka whakarākei
Bone pendant, broken at the suspension hole. Knob part-way down. Curved to a point.
Complete curved bone pendant with drilled suspension hole.
Complete tooth pendant. The tooth curves to a blunt point. There is a large crack through the distal end of the pendant. The proximal end suspension hole has been drilled from both sides.
Complete bone pendant. Curved with suspension hole.
Broken worked bone, a pendant or fishhook fragment. Curved. Perforation and groove at the proximal end, broken at the distal end.
Mostly complete bone or tusk pendant, small part broken off the distal end. Reduced around the suspension hole at the proximal end.
Complete bone or tusk pendant. Previously broken at the suspension hole and from mid-pendant toward distal end; has been glued back together.
