Te tanai
Te tanai. Hafted adze tool. This is an adze blade. It is a component of a tool that would be used to cut or shape a hard material. It has been carved from lambis bryonia otherwise commonly referred to as a spider conch. It is triangular in shape with a natural convex surface. The edge of the blade that makes contact when in use is slightly concave and has been sharpened to a thin edge. The surface is fractured in some areas of cracking with uneven ridging. The base side is concave. Its is off-white with an underlying yellow tone.
- 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 tool
Wiin te tanai
- Momo Ingoa Kē
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- Kupu whakaahua
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- Wāhi
- Gilbert Islands/Kiribati
- 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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1936.295
- Rā Tāpiringa
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1936
- Tohu Tuakiri Kē
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24082
- 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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