Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Bone bird spear point, previously broken in two pieces and glued back together. Five complete barbs and one broken barb.
Complete fishhook point. Straight with notches at base.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Partially manufactured fishhook showing drill work and perforation
Partially manufactured fishhook
Complete bone bird spear point. Five barbs.
Incomplete bone bird spear point, broken at each end. Two barbs.
Broken bone bird spear point, lower portion remaining. Two barbs. Notches on barbs and on both sides of base.
Complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Bone bird spear point, broken at the base. Four barbs.
Large piece of solid bone worked to a point at the distal end, broken at the proximal end. Surface of the point is smooth with polishing marks evident. Internal bone structure visible on one side.
Partially manufactured fishhook.
Complete awl. Distal end is pointed. There is a crack around where the point emerges from the base.
Complete bone point, manufactured from hollow bone.
Mostly complete fish gorge. Tip of one point broken.
Complete fish gorge.
