Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete straight fishhook. Barb on internal side of tip, notches on external side of base.
Complete straight fishhook point. Notches on external side of base, with internal barb near tip.
Complete fish gorge.
Mostly complete threader, small fragment missing from the proximal end and tip of point broken.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a sawn, almost circular eye at the proximal end.
Mostly complete threader. Both ends pointed, but tip of one broken off.
Complete threader, pointed at both ends. There are two small notches along the top towards one end.
Complete curved fishhook point with 1 notch present on top of base.
Mostly Complete straight fishhook point. Portion of the base is missing. Barb present at point end.
Complete bone bird spear point. Four barbs. Serrations along barbed side. Notch at base.
Kā taputapu
Roughout Quadrangular at poll, rectangular at blade. Bruised and flaked. Butt has minor differentiation, sides taper toward poll. Bevel continuous with blade. Cutting edge blunt, rough and uneven.
Complete adze. Asymmetrical Bruised and flaked. Butt undifferentiated. Bevel continuous with blade, tapering down to cutting edge which is smooth, sharp and rounded.
Mahi kai ki tai
Broken sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove
Complete fish gorge. There are three diagonal grooves along the front surface of the medial portion.
Broken gorge, one end remaining. There is a curved reduction near the broken end.
Broken gorge, one end remaining.
Complete bone bird spear point. Four barbs.
