Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bone pendant. Suspension hole at proximal end. Kinked at mid-shaft and foot-shaped distal end.
Ivory or tusk pendant, broken with heavy wear at the distal end. Suspension hole drilled from both sides.
Taoka Māori
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and a perforation at the base. It has a long notch on the external side of the base.
Dog tooth pendant
Incomplete straight fishhook point. Very tip of fishhook is missing. 3 distinct notches are present at base portion.
Curved fishhook point fragment, base broken, point and tip present. Internal barb and tip of point.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment, with most remaining except tip and base. Serrations along external edge.
Curved bone pendant, mostly complete except for small piece broken off of suspension hole. Has been previously broken on the upper portion and glued back together.
Mostly complete bone point or shellfish picker. Broken around the proximal end. Hollow is filled with dirt.
Broken threader, long portion remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Mostly complete threader, broken around the proximal end.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a fine point.
Piece of hollow straight bone, broken at one end and worked to a blunt, flattened point at the other end.
Mostly complete threader, chipped at the proximal end.
Broken threader, sharpened distal end remaining.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a point.
Complete fish gorge.
Mostly complete fish gorge, tip on one side broken off.
