Tao
Tao. Barbed spear. This is one entire component that portrays both the shaft and ulu tao (spear head). The surface of the wood is dark brown in colour, smooth in surface texture with few hafted marks. The shaft part is long and cylindrical. Its base end tapers into a point. The ulu tao section portrays a range of complex fakanifonifo beginning with two large star-like segments at the base and then several points following on towards the tip. There are some fractures among the points revealing a lighter brown tone of wooden texture.
- 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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Barbed spear (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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- Rā Tāpiringa
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1891
- Tohu Tuakiri Kē
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10929 (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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