Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Complete curved fishhook point. Reduction around base
Complete toggle, chipped at both ends, with one end missing a fragment. There is a single perforation. The surface is decorated with striations in a cross-hatched pattern. Bone is burned.
Taoka whakarākei
Bone pendant, broken at the suspension hole on the proximal end. Curved to a point on the distal end.
Broken curved fishhook point fragment. All remaining but end of base. Perforation at base. Serrated bait knob on one side of shank.
Broken bone pendant, proximal end remaining. Curved with a suspension hole.
Complete curved fishhook barracouta point. Serrations on external side, from bait knob to tip.
Broken fishhook point, curved tip remaining.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip, external serrations at base.
Complete curved fishhook point. End of base broken. Made from animal jaw, teeth perforations along one side.
Complete curved fishhook point fragment. End of base broken. Perforation through base. Serrations along both sides from tip to shank, serrations continue along one side to base.
Complete curved fishhook point.
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb at tip and external serrations at base.
Broken fishhook point, upper point remaining, broken at base. Internal barb. Notch at lower end just above break.
Broken bone pendant, proximal end remaining. Straight with suspension hole.
Mostly complete bone bird spear point with three complete barbs and two broken barbs. Notches on one barb.
Bone bird spear point, broken at each end of the shaft. Two barbs remaining.
Mahi kai ki uta
Broken slate knife, no edges discernable. Both surfaces are ground.
Kā taputapu
Silcrete blade split on the right lateral margin. Mid grey and dark grey in colour.
Broken and split silcrete blade, medial portion remaining and split on the ventral surface on a lateral margin.
Bone point, distal end is sharp.
