Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken, curved fishhook point with the tip missing.
Broken bone point, distal end sharpened.
Broken fishhook point, upper remaining. Long and slender variety.
Broken bone point, base remaining.
Taoka whakarākei
Pendant made from a seal tooth. Two cut rectangular suspension holes at the root. Crack along one side from root to tip.
Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end, slight longitudinal groove below the eye on one side.
Complete curved fishhook point, lightly chipped at tip.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Broken curved fishhook point, lower end remaining, broken at tip.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a drilled, circular eye at the proximal end, thickness reduced on proximal end.
Broken needle, distal end remaining. Distal end sharp.
Mostly complete threader, broken around the proximal end.
Broken threader, sharpened tip remaining.
Broken fish gorge, one sharpened end remaining.
Small fragment of bird bone, worked to a blunt, flattened point at one end.
