Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Partially manufactured hook with curved shape. Perforation at one end
Kā taputapu
Broken silcrete blade, distal portion remaining. Cream and mid grey in colour.
Broken one-piece fishhook with all remaining except head and point.
Bone bird spear point, previously broken in two pieces and glued back together. Five complete barbs and one broken barb.
Complete fishhook point. Straight with notches at base.
Complete fishhook point. Straight and barbed with notches at base.
Partially manufactured fishhook showing drill work and perforation
Partially manufactured fishhook
Adze roughout. Grey and brown stone. Surface is flaked. Cross-section is lenticular. Sides are reduced around the butt. Bevel is demarcated by a change in colour and surface. Cutting edge is not present due to flaking. "McKays Ground Papanui Inlet" inscription
Mahi kai ki tai
Complete sinker with faint transverse lashing groove and quartered lashing groove that is deep at two points and very faint at other two.
Complete bone bird spear point. Five barbs.
Incomplete bone bird spear point, broken at each end. Two barbs.
Broken bone bird spear point, lower portion remaining. Two barbs. Notches on barbs and on both sides of base.
Complete fish gorge, manufactured from hollow bone.
Silcrete flake. Mid brown and light grey in colour. Bifacial retouch on both lateral margins.
Bone bird spear point, broken at the base. Four barbs.
Large piece of solid bone worked to a point at the distal end, broken at the proximal end. Surface of the point is smooth with polishing marks evident. Internal bone structure visible on one side.
Partially manufactured fishhook.
Complete awl. Distal end is pointed. There is a crack around where the point emerges from the base.
