Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete curved fishhook point, with serrations from tip to point.
Complete fish gorge.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Complete double-ended straight fishhook point. Both ends are complete with a barb and serrations on both sides of the points.
Complete point. One end is finished and smoothed, the other is sharpened to a point.
Taoka Puoro
Complete flute. There are three perforations along the top. There are visible repairs where previously broken.
Fishhook fragment, unfinished. Has been broken into two pieces and repaired.
Partially manufactured hook fragment.
Fishhook fragment , unfinished.
Unidentified fishhook fragment.
Broken bone fishhook fragment, unknown portion remaining. Surface is very weather-worn. Base with bait notch remaining, a piece of which is perpendicular to a straight point or shank.
Complete one-piece fish hook, knob and internal barb on the head.
One piece fishhook, unfinished. Broken into two pieces at base with point missing. Drilled hole in base with knob on head. Small piece glued on at base portion.
One-piece fishhook fragment, head, shank and base present, Knob and shank knob on head. One-piece fishhook fragment, tip, point and basal section present.
One-piece fishhook fragment, tip and point present.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end missing tip of point, epiphysis remaining on proximal end.
Broken shank, fragment of head remaining, knobs.
Complete but unfinished toggle, with no perforation.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete curved bone pendant with suspension hole.
