Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka whakarākei
Complete shark tooth pendant. Sides of the root have been squared off with a suspension hole. Natural serrations along the tooth to the tip.
Broken bone comb, proximal end and one of our four teeth remaining. Sawing marks used to create teeth are evident on both sides. Remaining tooth is worked to a sharp point.
Taoka Māori
Complete threader, large and manufactured from a thick piece of bone.
Kā taputapu
Silcrete flake. White in colour.
Complete curved fishhook point. External and internal serrations, with perforation at lower point.
Fishhook point fragment, all remaining except tip of point. Fishhook fragment is curved, external notches.
Fishhook point fragment, lower fishhook point not present. Fishhook point fragment is curved, with serrations on external. "Long Beach"
Complete straight fishhook point. Internal barb, with notches at base and tip.
Complete adze. Asymmetrical. Surface is bruised. Butt undifferentiated. Bevel is demarcated by a very faint curved line. Cutting edge is slightly rounded, sharp and has minor chipping.
Complete, curved fishhook point. It has a perforation at the base and an exterior, lower notch. It is hollow.
Broken, curved fishhook with the base missing.
Complete straight fishhook point. 4 distinct notches at base with barb on opposite side at point end.
Complete, curved fishhook point. It has lower, exterior notches and a split in the exterior side near the tip.
Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, internal barb. There is a notch above this barb. It has lower, exterior notches at the base and a split on the interior side from the base to the barb.
Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches at the base.
Complete needle. Distal end is sharp. There is a long, sawn eye near the proximal end that comes to a point.
Complete bone bird spear point. Four barbs.
Bone bird spear point, broken at each end. Four barbs remaining.
Complete, curved fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and lower, external notches.
Broken, fishhook point with an upper, internal barb and two notches on either side of the point in the middle. The base is missing.