Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Partially manufactured fishhook
Broken fishhook, part of shank remaining. Straight with triangular cross-section.
Piece of dentalium shell, broken at each end and hollow in the centre, possibly used as a pendant bead. White with grooves running the length of the shell.
Straight complete fishhook.
Complete curved fishhook. Notch on lower external face.
Curved Fishhook point. Missing tip.
Partially manufactured fishhook point.
Unidentified fishhook fragment
Mostly complete straight fishhook point, all remaining except very upper tip. Internal and external barb with knob on internal side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point with large notch on one side and barb on the other.
Complete straight fishhook point with 1 notch at base and barb at point end.
Broken needle, shaft and distal end remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Curved fishhook point fragment, base and most of point present, tip is not present. Notches on external side of base.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of straight bone, hollow at one end and split at the other end, worked to a point.
Piece of worked wood, use unknown. Completely burnt to charcoal with dessicated surface. Tubular shape, round cross-section. Tapered at both ends, with chisel marks evident at one end.
Complete curved bone point. Distal end is sharpened. There are striations on the front surface near the proximal end.
Piece of straight, hollow bone, one end is split and worked to a point.
Incomplete curved fishhook point with base missing. External barb present.
Straight piece of bone.
