Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining, tip not present. Serrations on external side.
Broken curved fishhook point, mid and lower remaining, tip not present. Serrations on external side.
Curved fishhook point.
Complete short bone point. Distal end is blunt and rounded.
Taoka whakarākei
Broken bone pendant, broken at the suspension hole at the proximal end. Distal end is tapered to a point. A kink is carved about halfway down. Surface is polished.
Complete straight fishhook point with internal barb.
Broken needle, shaft and proximal end remaining. Broken at tip, and there is a visible repair halfway up the shaft where previously broken. Thickness is reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Mostly complete curved fishhook point, tip not present. Notches on external side of base.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete straight fishhook point, external notch on side of base. Slightly chipped at base.
Broken fishhook point, fragment of base remaining. Large point basal barb.
Partially complete patu aruhe made of bone. Blade has a portion broken off on one side. Handle is very tapered where it meets the butt. Round cross-section.
Complete patu aruhe made of bone. Handle tapered towards the butt. Bottom of blade is reduced all the way around, forming a bevel toward the flat centre.
Piece of wood, possibly worked, use unknown. Roughly triangular in cross-section, with a flattened smooth plane on one side.
Broken and unfinished toggle, both ends heavily chipped. There is no perforation.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the base and lower point remaining. It has a external, lower basal notch.
Piece of hollow worked bone, pointed at one end. Surface is smooth with polishing marks evident.
Piece of straight hollow bone, broken at each end and worked to a blunt point at one end.
Broken point, slightly curved and manufactured from hollow bone.
Broken threader, medial portion remaining of large threader. There is a perforation at the proximal end.
