Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Maori
Fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook. Hole drilled through centre.
Fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook. Two large holes drilled through centre.
Partially manufactured fishhook, showing drill work in the centre.
Partially manufactured hook with evidence of notching on one side.
Partially manufactured hook. Centre of the tab still remaining.
Partially manufactured fishhook with drilling marks around inner edge.
Bone harpoon head. Projection at the base and single stout barb. Groove below the barb for the top of the shaft. Perforation at the head.
Partially manufactured fishhook with sawing marks.
Broken fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook. External edge is rounded, drill marks along internal edge.
Partially manufactured fishhook
Partially manufactured fishhook. Curved with drill marks along one side. Burnt.
Broken fishhook tab, partially manufactured fishhook.
Partially manufactured fishhook.
Broken one-piece fishhook, shank remaining. Knobs on head of shank.
Partially manufactured fishhook with sawing marks
Complete bird spear point, manufactured from moa bone. There are notches on both side of the base, and barbs on both sides of the shaft towards the distal end.
Broken large shank fragment, fragment missing from side and head slightly broken. Notches around front and side of base.
Moa bone point, distal end sharpened.
