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Toki taraī

human history
  • Other Name

    Adze, Hafted (English)

  • Description

    Toki tarai. Hafted adze (but adze is loose). A highly polished toki (adze - triangular in cross section) once hafted to a long, wooden haft but now loose. Still stored with the haft. Wooden haft shaped from a section of tree branch. PIece of cord tied around the middle of the haft. Lashing of puru akari (braided coconut sennit) of a flat iri taki toru (3-ply braid) lashed on to the top of the haft to secure the adze.

    No carved surface decoration on the haft itself which is natural in colour. The lashing is natural in colour and the toki (adze) is dark grey in colour.

  • Place
    Cook Islands
  • Associated Place

    Cook Islands

  • Accession Number
    1917.40
  • Accession Date
    1917
  • Other Id

    8645 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Toki taraī, 1917.40, 8645, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 12 Oct 2016, Cultural Permissions Apply

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