Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete curved fishhook point, internal barb and notches on external side of base.
Mostly complete bird spear point, small fragment of base of shaft broken off. There are four barbs.
Complete bird bone spear point. Straight with three barbs.
Taoka whakarākei
Complete bone pendant. Straight with suspension hole, pointed at one end.
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete bone one-piece fishhook. There is a notch at the base of the shank. There is an external knob on the head and an internal notch.
Broken fishhook fragment, all present except base.
Complete one-piece bone fishhook. The bend has a notch. The tip is bent and comes to a sharp point. The head has a shank knob and a knob at the head, which is worn.
Complete curved fishhook point. Large base that has external notches present.
Complete bird spear point. There are five barbs. All but the uppermost barb are serrated along the top edges. There is a single notch on the base of the shaft.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notched on external lower side.
Complete, straight fishhook point.
Straight fishhook point fragment, base and part of point present with notches on external side of base.
Mahi whakairo
Small piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken on one side and worked to a blunt point at the end. Surface is smooth.
Curved piece of bone with half a perforation.
Complete one-piece fishhook. Knob at head and external base notch. End of tip is not present.
Complete shellfish picker or bone awl. Chipped at the proximal end.
Shellfish picker, manufactured from hollow bone. Chipped at the proximal end.
Complete bone pendant. Suspension hole at one end and slightly curved towards the other end, coming to a point at an oblique angle.
