Toki

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Toki. Hafted adze. This toki consists of a wooden handle cut from a tree branch incorporating a section of a natural offshoot to which is hafted a small 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. It is slightly bent in profile. The toki is trapezoidal 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)

Accession number: 1931.580 Last Update: 16 Sept 2019
Other Name

Hafted adze (English)

Place
Niue
Accession Number

1931.580

Accession Date

16 Nov 1931

Other Id

16848.2 (ethnology)

Department

Pacific

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