Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete needle. Sharp at both ends, with a sawn, long eye in the centre. There is a crack along one side.
Bone bird spear point with single barb and two notches.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete curved bone pendant. Some reduction on the back side.
Broken tattoo chisel, of comb variety. Mostly complete, however there are fragments missing from hafting end and cutting edge.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Unfinished needle. Both ends are sharp.
Broken needle, proximal end remaining. Thickness reduced at proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced on proximal end, with an off-centre, drilled, circular eye.
Complete bird spear point. Three barbs.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining.
Curved bone point. Possibly fishhook point.
Complete bone point, distal end sharpened.
Complete bone point, distal end is sharpened. Visible repair where previously broken at midpoint.
Complete bone point, distal end is sharpened.
Complete double ended point.
Broken threader, in eight pieces. Three pieces are large, five are small.
