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Fao'a

human history
  • Other Name

    Adze Rough Out (English)

  • Description

    Fao'a. Adze rough-out. Ofa'i (stone) is worked to form the basic and narrow shape of this adze including poll, blade, raised bevel and narrow cutting edge. The all-over surface has been unfinished and left deeply flaked. The rough-out is grey in colour.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1935.196
  • Accession Date
    11 Jun 1935
  • Other Id

    21872 (ethnology)

    D33.1711 (Otago University Museum)

  • Department
adze, 1935.196, 21872, D33.1711, Photographed by Andrew… … Read more

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