Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete fish gorge.
Mahi whakairo
Piece of hollow, straight worked bone. Broken at one end and the other end has been filed to a rounded, bevelled edge. Surface is very smooth, with some evidence of polishing marks around the worked tip.
Unfinished needle. Distal end is sharp. No eye.
Broken needle, shaft and tip remaining. Shaft is fine, distal end sharp.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Broken needle, fragment of tip remaining, broken at both ends.
Complete needle. Distal end is chipped, missing just the tip. There is a drilled, circular eye on the proximal end.
Broken bird spear point, the shaft is broken. There is three barbs and small cracks on it.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete tattoo chisel. Hafting end is tapered and reduced, with a small reduction at the poll end forming two small prongs. Teeth along cutting edge, some chipped.
Broken fishhook point, upper point remaining. Internal barb near tip.
Broken fishhook point, upper point remaining. Large barb on one side.
Complete fishhook point. Curved with notches at base.
Complete curved fishhook point. Reduction on one of base.
Bone bird spear point, broken at the base. One barb remaining, possibly another at the broken end. Serrations at base.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Partially manufactured fishhook, broken. Previously broken at base, glued together.
Complete curved fishhook point. Notches on external side of base. Internal barb.
