Adze head
Made from basalt (manutea), this hogback adze (toki) is common to eastern Polynesia and would have been used to fell tress and carve canoes. Making one utilises three techniques; flaking, pecking and grinding.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 573/2007/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- adze head
- Simple Name
- adze head
- Production Country
- New Zealand
- Production Year High
- 2007