Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken half of a piece of bone, worked to a dull point at one end.
Incomplete curved fishhook point fragment. Base and point ends are both missing. Fishhook fragment appears burnt.
Incomplete curved fishhook point fragment. Point on fishhook is missing. No visible features at base portion.
Incomplete curved fishhook point fragment with point end missing. No visible markings or features present on hook.
Broken needle. Shaft and tip remaining. Broken at drilled, circular eye at proximal end.
Broken bone point, distal end remaining. Distal end is bluntly pointed.
Cut length of bone, epiphysis one end. There is a large longitudinal crack from the cut end.
Complete curved fishhook point. Perforation at base.
Complete fishhook point with slight curve. External barb and external serrations.
Broken straight fishhook point. Missing tip and base, only shaft remaining. Serrations on both internal and external aspects.
Taoka Puoro
Broken flute, fragment remaining. There are two partial perforations along the broken edges, and striations in a chevron pattern. Several longitudinal hair cracks running length of fragment.
Broken point, tip remaining.
Piece of straight hollow bone, epiphysis remaining on one end and worked to a sharp point at the other end.
Fragment of bone, broken lengthwise and worked to a point at one end.
Piece of straight hollow bird bone, broken at one end and filed at an angle on the other end, tapering to a point.
Small piece of hollow straight bone, broken at one end and filed to a blunt point at the other end.
Piece of straight bone, broken lengthwise and worked to a blunt point at one end.
Piece of straight bone, broken lengthwise and at one end. Worked to a sharp point at the other end.
Incomplete straight fishhook point. 4 notches present at base. Point portion has broken off.
Broken curved fishhook points, upper remaining, broken at base.