Adze; wood shaft, blade fashioned from giant Tridacna (giant clam) shell; 3-strand coconut fiber lashing; used for hollowing out canoes; 150 years old when presented 1942
Collection place:
American Samoa
Culture or time period:
Samoan
Taxon:
Tridacna
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Adzes
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits