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Kaheru

On display
human history
  • Common Name
    food gathering / storage
  • Other Name

    wooden digging implement (descriptive name)

  • Description

    This dark brown kaheru has a thin, rectangular blade, slightly rounded at the bottom. The handle thickens at one point, and then again at the end before tapering off to a point.

  • Accession Number
    1930.285
  • Accession Date
    1930
  • Other Id

    13697 (ethnology)

    493 (Taonga Database)

  • Department
  • Display Room

Images and documents

Images

Artefact

  • Display location

    Maori Court East

  • Last Update
    23 May 2017
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