Toki
human history
Toki, Adze. Multipurpose tool used for carving wood and other materials. Carved from basalt toka (stone). Light grey in colour. Triangular in cross-section. Dull cutting edge. Steep bevel. Sides left flaked. Front of the blade is flat and roughly polished.Raised shoulder. From shoudler reduced to butt. Butt and poll left roughly flaked. Roughly polished and flaked in overall surface treatment.
Accession number: 1939.26 Last Update: 3 May 2019
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Adze (English)
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- Rarotonga/Cook Islands
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1939.26
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16 Feb 1939
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24386.3 (ethnology)
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