Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete curved fishhook point. Deep groove along external side of fishhook.
Taoka whakarākei
Pendant made from an animal tooth, broken at the proximal end. Some drilling which make indicate a broken suspension hole.
Unfinished fishhook point, showing working on sides.
Complete bone pendant. One intact suspension hole and one broken suspension hole at proximal end. Straight, coming to a point at the distal end.
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole at proximal end and filed to a point on sides of the distal end.
Broken bone pendant, proximal end remaining. Straight with suspension hole.
Broken needle, shaft and tip remaining. Distal end is sharp. Broken at proximal end.
Broken, straight fishhook point with the tip and upper point remaining. It has an upper, internal barb.
Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches.
Worked bone, possibly a toggle. Bone tube cut at both ends, but not smoothed. Perforation at one end. Cut marks at both ends. Cracks from end to end. Bone has been polished, with traces of white remaining, especially in the perforation.
Bone point, possibly broken at shaft end. Other end is sharpened into a fine point.
Rākau o te riri
Fragment of patu paraoa, butt and part of handle remaining. Ornamental grooves on top of butt. Drilled perforation on handle. Indentation on one edge and two on one side. Some reduction above perforation on one side.
Portion of solid seal tooth, broken at each end.
Seal tooth, hollow root remaining. Saw marks at the each end.
Complete fish gorge.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point. Large internal barb with external notches.
Unidentified fishhook fragment. One side straight and one side curved. Notch at one end.
Broken fishhook, base and unidentified portion remaining. Curved at a right angle with some reduction at base.
