Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete, straight fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Straight fishhook point fragment, base and part of point present with notches on external side of base.
Mahi whakairo
Small piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken on one side and worked to a blunt point at the end. Surface is smooth.
Curved piece of bone with half a perforation.
Complete one-piece fishhook. Knob at head and external base notch. End of tip is not present.
Complete shellfish picker or bone awl. Chipped at the proximal end.
Shellfish picker, manufactured from hollow bone. Chipped at the proximal end.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bone pendant. Suspension hole at one end and slightly curved towards the other end, coming to a point at an oblique angle.
Straight fishhook point with internal barbs and notches on external side of base.
Complete, straight fishhook point with a middle, internal barb and a notch at the base.
Mostly complete threader, possibly broken at the distal end. Threader is curved.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a long eye near the proximal end, which also comes to a point.
Broken toggle, longitudinal fragment remaining. There is a partial perforation, broken through the centre. Serrations at both ends, .
Broken bird spear point. Tip and middle of shaft remain, four barbs along middle of shaft.
Complete, curved fishhook point.
Complete straight fishhook point with 4 external notches, and internal barb.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp, very tip of point broken off. There is a long eye sawn through proximal end. Proximal end is also pointed.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp.
Broken needle, distal end remaining. Distal end is sharp.
