Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Mostly complete bone bird spear point. Two complete barbs and one broken barb.
Complete bone point. Distal end is sharpened, proximal end has a notch on one side.
Complete fish gorge.
Taoka Puoro
Broken flute, one end remaining. There are three perforations, two along the top and one at the finished end. A crack runs through the perforations to the end. Striations decorate the surface in a cross-hatched pattern.
Complete, curved one-piece fishhook, although the very tip is missing. At the head it has knob which was broken off but has been fixed and a shank knob.
Complete, curved one-piece fishhook. The tip has an incurred point and the head has a knob.
Complete, curved one-piece fishhook. The exterior side is fully serrated and there is a knob on the head and a shank knob.
Complete straight fishhook point, with internal barb and notches on external side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point, with internal barb and notches at base.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an internal barb in the middle of the point and notches at the base on the exterior side.
Complete, straight fishhook point with an internal , upper point and notches at the base on the exterior side.
Complete straight fishhook point. 1 barb on the point, 2 notches at the base.
complete curved fishhook point. 1 barb near the tip, 4 notches at the base. Carved out one side to make a concave face
Complete straight fishhook point. 1 barb at the point, 3 notches at the base. Slightly concave on one side.
complete straight fishhook point. 1 internal barb, 2 large external notches. The point is circular.
complete straight fishhook point. I barb, 1 notch just above the barb. 2 notches at the base on the opposite side. Serration above the notices goes all the way to the tip.
complete straight fishhook point. 1 barb near the point. 2 notches near the base, one on the edge and one on the side. The opposite side is carved out making it concave at that side.
Complete straight fishhook point with 3 notches at base. Barb present on opposite side roughly at mid section of fishhook.
Complete straight fishhook point. 5 notches at the base, 1 barb at the point on opposite edges.