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Toki

human history
  • Ingoa Kē

    Adze (English)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    Toki. Adze. Multipurpose tool used for carving wood and other materials. Carved from toka (stone). Dark brown in colour. Quadrangular cross-section. Small cutting edge. Shallow bevel surface. Front of blade is flat. Slight shoulder, reduced to butt. Butt has been flaked. Terminated with poll. Overall surface is polished with areas of flaking apparent.

  • Wāhi
  • Wāhi Hāngai
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    1870
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    11716 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
Toki, 11716, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 15 Aug… … Read more

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