Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Taoka Māori
Broken point, shaft remaining.
Complete bone point.
Complete straight bone point. One end comes to a sharp point.
Broken curved fishhook point, mostly complete, distal end of tip broken.
Broken curved fishhook point. Upper portion remaining.
Broken curved bone point, broken at both ends.
Broken tab. Smoothed on top, bottom and external side. Internal side features large drill marks.
Broken one-piece fishhook point, base and some of tip and shank remaining. Knobs are broken on shank. Incurved tip of point broken off, and a small external fragment of the point is missing.
Broken point, tip remaining.
Broken one-piece fishhook point, shank remaining. Knobs on shank.
Broken and unfinished one-piece fishhook, point remaining. Shaping around tip of point, broken at base.
Cut slab of moa bone. Cutting mark on one end.
Broken fishhook tab. Top, bottom and external side are smoothed, circular drill marks along internal side.
Broken fishhook tab. Top, bottom and external side are shaped and smoothed. Circular drill marks along broken edge.
Complete awl. Epiphysis of bone on one end. Opposite end is sharpened to dull tip.
Broken curved fishhook point, base remaining. Large notches on external side of base.
Fishhook tab, one-piece fishhook piece in process of manufacture. There is a large perforation in the centre of the tab.
Cut length of worked moa bone.
Broken tab. Lower and external sides are smoothed. There are circular drill marks along the broken edge.
Broken one-piece fishhook, base remaining.
