To’i
- Description
-
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. - Accession Loan No.
- E1225
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Common Name
- to’i
- Simple Name
- adze
- Full Name
- hafted adze
- Dimensions
- whole length 465 mm; whole width 161 mm
- Production Year Low
- 1773
- Production Year High
- 1777
- Production County
- Tahiti, Society Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Production Area Region
- Polynesia
- Production Continent
- Oceania
- Family Group
- Material
- basalt; plaited coconut fibre (sennit)
- Collection Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
- Collection Area Region
- Polynesia
- Collection Continent
- Oceania
