Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken and unfinished one-piece fishhook, point remaining. Shaping around tip of point, broken at base.
Cut slab of moa bone. Cutting mark on one end.
Broken fishhook tab. Top, bottom and external side are smoothed, circular drill marks along internal side.
Broken fishhook tab. Top, bottom and external side are shaped and smoothed. Circular drill marks along broken edge.
Complete awl. Epiphysis of bone on one end. Opposite end is sharpened to dull tip.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining. Large notches on external side of base.
Fishhook tab, one-piece fishhook piece in process of manufacture. There is a large perforation in the centre of the tab.
Cut length of worked moa bone.
Broken tab. Lower and external sides are smoothed. There are circular drill marks along the broken edge.
Broken one-piece fishhook, base remaining.
Large fragment of bone, tapering to a broken tip.
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.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining. Curved notch on base.
Curved fishhook point, very worn.
Complete curved fishhook point. There are grooves on the back of the base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notches on the external side of base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Curved notches on the external side of base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notches on external side of base. Fragment missing from base.
