Toki
Toki. Hafted adze. This toki consists of a long wooden handle cut from a tree branch incorporated a section of a natural offshoot to which is hafted a toki (adze) shaped from maka uli (volcanic stone). The handle is light brown in colour. It is long and cylindrical with a smooth surface treatment, and carved to a point at its base end. The toki is triangular in cross section with sharp side edges and steep bevel, with a slight curve in profile of the sharp cutting edge. The toki is lashed securely to the wooden haft with pulu (braided coconut sennit)
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- Te reo Name
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Hafted adze (English)
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- Description
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- Place
- Niue
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- Accession Number
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1931.580
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16 Nov 1931
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16848.1 (ethnology)
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- Display Room
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