Toki
Toki. Hafted adze. This toki consists of a wooden handle cut from a tree branch incorporating a section of a natural offshoot to which is hafted a small toki (adze) shaped from maka uli (volcanic stone). The handle is light brown in colour. It is long and cylindrical with a smooth surface treatment. It is slightly bent in profile. The toki is trapezoidal in cross section with sharp side edges and steep bevel, with a slight curve in profile of the sharp cutting edge. The toki is lashed securely to the wooden haft with pulu (braided coconut sennit)
- Collection Area
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- Te reo Name
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- Ingoa Kōrero Noa
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- Ingoa Kē
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Hafted adze (English)
- Momo Ingoa Kē
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- Kupu whakaahua
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- Wāhi
- Niue
- Wāhi Hāngai
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- Field Collection Place
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- Wāhi Whāiti Taketake i Kohia ai
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- Rā Kohinga
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- Rā i Kohia i te Wāhi Taketake
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- Accession Number
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1931.580
- Rā Tāpiringa
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16 Nov 1931
- Tohu Tuakiri Kē
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16848.2 (ethnology)
- Momo Tohu Tuakiri Kē
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- Wāhanga
- Rūma Whakaatu
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- Herenga
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- Momo
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