Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Partially manufactured hook
Piece of wood, possibly worked, scorched on one side. Surface of scorched side is dessicated. The other side is cracked, with a relatively flat plane. Reduced at one end.
Piece of worked wood, use unknown. Burnt with a smooth surface. Round cross-section.
Broken fishhook tab. Partially manufactured hook.
Complete awl. Slightly chipped at the proximal end.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp and chipped. Cracked along length of awl.
Broken awl, distal end remaining. Broken at the proximal end.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp.
Broken and unfinished toggle. Length of bone being cut down to size. Cut at one end, with cutting marks at the other, after which the bone extends to a heavily chipped end.
Broken threader, long lower portion remaining. Broken around the proximal end.
Complete point, sharpened at one end, cutting marks at the proximal end.
Complete awl, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. Cracks along length of shaft. Partial epiphysis on proximal end.
Broken bone gouge, chipping around the proximal end.
Complete awl.
Complete double ended point, both ends sharpened.
Complete awl, but is chipped at the proximal end and where the point emerges from the shaft.
Complete awl. Chipped at proximal end and where point emerges from shaft.
Mostly complete threader, slightly chipped at the proximal end. Distal end is sharp.
Complete threader. Pointed at both ends.
