axe

Hafted shell axe for making canoes. Blade made from clam shell, lashed to handle with coconut fibre. Clam shell adzes were the rule in Micronesia where stone blades could be made only on the few volcanic islands which occur in the Caroline and Marianas Groups.

Ingoa Kē

Te toki (Solomon Islands)

Wāhi

Mortlock Island/Micronesia/Pacific Takuu/Tanu Island/New Guinea (PRE 1975)

Rā Tāpiringa

1888

Tohu Tuakiri Kē

11543 (ethnology)

Wāhanga

Pacific