Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Mostly complete fish gorge, tip broken at one end.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow straight worked bone. One end is broken and filed smooth at an angle, tapering to a blunt point.
Piece of straight bird bone, broken in half lengthwise and worked to a blunt point at one end.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end sharpened to a point, chipped at proximal end.
Broken bone point, shaft and tip remaining. Distal end is sharpened.
Piece of worked bone, broken on one end and tapered to a point on the other end. Cross section is quadrangular on the broken end and pentagonal at the pointed end. Surface is polished.
Piece of straight bird bone, broken in half lengthwise and worked to a dull point at one end.
Complete curved fishhook point, tip of point not present. External barb.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and a lower, internal notch. The internal side is serrated above the notch to the tip. It has external, lower notches and serration above these notches to the tip.
Broken, curved fishhook point with the tip and point remaining. The external side is serrated down to where it is broken and there is an upper, internal barb.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and an external barb in the middle of the point as well as lower, external notches.
Broken bird spear point, tip remaining. There are three barbs.
Complete bird spear point. There are four barbs. The lowest barb features a single notch along the upper edge.
Broken fish gorge, one sharpened end remaining.
Mostly complete shellfish picker or bone point. Broken around the proximal end. Manufactured from slender hollow bone.
Kekeno (fur seal) ulna. Parallel cuts are evident along the length of the bone. The distal end is worn.
Complete bird spear point. There is a barb in the middle of the shaft.
Complete straight fishhook point. Serration present at tip end and barb present on the other side.