Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete curved fishhook point. Base is slightly reduced with notches.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Tattoo needle, needle tip broken off. Visible repair where previously broken.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete pendant in triangular shape, tapering towards the suspension hole, a small part of which has broken off.
Mostly complete bird spear point, small part broken off of each end. Four barbs.
Bone bird spear point, small part missing from tip. Four barbs.
Broken bone point.
Taoka Puoro
Unfinished flute. This flute is finished at both ends, but has no perforations.
Complete bird spear point. Has eight barbs. Has dirt on one side with a red stain.
Perforated bone toggle.
Broken bone point, tip remaining. Distal end is sharp.
Worked bone
Complete bone point. Epiphysis remains at the proximal end, the distal end sharpened to a fine point.
Piece of worked bone, previously broken in two pieces and glued back together. Proximal end has two large notches on one side edge. Tapers to the distal end, which is broken.
Broken threader, most remaining, large fragment of proximal end broken. There is a partial perforation at the broken edge with a crack running from the partial perforation to the sharpened distal end.
Broken needle, proximal end and shaft remaining. Slight upwards curve to shaft. Broken at the distal end. Some pink staining on surface around distal end.
Broken needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. There is a very shallow groove around the proximal end.
Broken needle, manufactured from hollow bone. Distal end is sharp. Proximal end broken at the eye.
Broken needle, proximal end remaining. Drilled, circular eye.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. Thickness reduced at the proximal end, with a drilled, circular eye roughly 2cm from the end.
