Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Broken tab. Lower and external sides are smoothed. There are circular drill marks along the broken edge.
Smoothed at one end, and partially on the sides, broken at the opposite end.
Worked piece of moa bone. Groove on the surface at one end.
Fragment of worked bone, smoothed on one end.
Complete bone pendant in the shape of a fishhook shank. Two knobs at head and slightly curved toward base. Internal bone structure is visible throughout.
Partially manufactured fishhook with drill work at centre.
Moa bone, possible fishhook tab. No drill marks.
Broken straight fishhook point, tip not present.
Fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook.
Partially manufactured tab.
Bone shank of composite fishhook. The cross section is triangular. The head has one perforation and the base has two perforations. There is a dried adhesive on the back face.
Partially manufactured fishhook showing drill work.
Partially manufactured fishhook showing drill work
Complete inner from fishhook tab.
Complete bone minnow lure shank. Perforation drilled from both sides at the head. Head is tapered to a dull point. Base has a knob with two projections on either side.
Fragment of moa bone, one end pointed.
Top part of a moa skull.
Minnow shank fragment, broken perforation at the head. Notch at base.
