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Ruatangaeo

human history
  • Other Name

    Adze, Hafted (English)

  • Description

    Ruatangaeo. Hafted adze. A toki (adze - trapezoidal in cross section) lashed to a long, cylindrical, ornately carved wooden haft with tapeka puru akari (coconut sennit lashing). The puru akari, braided in a fine flat iri taki toru (3-ply braid) is frayed in some areas. The same geometric motif repeated in rows all the way down the lenth of the haft. The puru akari is natural in colour, the toka is dark in colour, the haft is stained dark brown.

  • Place
    Cook Islands
  • Associated Place

    Mangaia/Cook Islands

  • Accession Number
    1950.128.17
  • Accession Date
    04 Jul 1950
  • Other Id

    32654 (ethnology)

    O.463N (Oldman Collection)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Ruatangaeo, 1950.128.17, 32654, O.463N, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 06 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • ceremonial adze

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