A660
This is a ground and polished stone axe head from Canada.
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42/1986
A wooden haft and binding ready to be attached to a thick stone blade that would be used for carving canoes and other large wooden structures.
96/1995/1
A missing cutting stone would have been mounted onto the haft of this adze and bound tight into place.
96/1995/2
The main cutting stone would have been mounted onto the haft of this adze.
116/1961/1
This carved adze haft has eyes made from paua shell.
79/1991/2
A fine basalt adze that was attached to a haft to carve large pieces of wood e.
79/1991/3
79/1991/4
49/1949/86
A small stone adze for refining the carving work done by larger adzes.
49/1949/88
A fragmented toki or stone adze for carving large pieces of wood.
110/1931/4
80/1991/1
This stone adze would have been attached to a wooden haft so that it could be used to carve large pieces of wood, such as canoes and house timbers.
80/1991/3
80/1991/6
This small stone adze would have been attached to a wooden haft so that it could be used in wood carving.
65/1993
16/1996/101
A stone adze head that would have been bound to a wooden haft for the purpose of carving.
573/2007/1
Made from basalt (manutea), this hogback adze (toki) is common to eastern Polynesia and would have been used to fell tress and carve canoes.
65/1920/14/1
It is said that adze stones (emoa) were acquired from the sea bottom.
E1640
Highly skilled carvers effectively used stone adzes (toki) to build large canoes and other sculptures.
110/1931/6
Wood carvers were of noble birth and experts who were in great demand often travelling widely to build canoes, stores and meeting houses.
9/1945/63b
“He iti te toki e rite ana ki te tangata.
6/1994/2
“Ahakoa he iti he pounamu” is a Maori proverb (whakatauki) which means “although it is small it is precious.
449/2009
This is the cord from a German parachute mine dropped on St Loyes Estate, Exeter, on 28th November 1940.
TTNCM : 178/2009
This replica of the Alfred jewel was made by Payne and Sons of Oxford for the Millenium celebrations of King Alfred in 1901.
92/1991
This Anderson shelter was used in Woodville Road, St Thomas, Exeter during the Second World War.
263/1903/3456
Diatoms on a microscope slide from the collection of WB Carpenter, prepared by WA Firth.
NHtemp95
A freeze-dried toad.
367/1974
Common frog freeze dried and varnished.
246/2005
This frog has been dissected and preserved in spirit.
Rep834
This frog has been preserved in spirit and suspended by a loop of monofilament.
