To’i
This adze type, called to’i, was used to dress timber for canoes and houses. The haft is made from the hard casuarina wood and the basalt triangular-sectioned blade is bound to it with plaited coconut fibre. Polynesian islanders depended upon specialist carpenters for creating vessels that would enable them to conduct voyages.
This item was acquired during the second or third Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook.
This item was acquired during the second or third Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1225
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- Polynesia
- Material
- basaltplaited coconut fibre (sennit)
- Common Name
- to’i
- Simple Name
- adze
- Production County
- Tahiti, Society Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Year Low
- 1773
- Production Year High
- 1777
