Tongatabu
(Place)

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Figure 270.—Tongan (?) adzes with toe hafts: a, b, National Museum, Copenhagen; c, National Museum, Rome (no. 1087). a, said to have been in Denmark before the year 1690; long toe with transverse lashing turns, adz blade of black stone "with a polished edge and upper side"; 570 mm. long; slight knob forming heel, b, said to have been in Denmark before 1770; very long toe with transverse lashing turns, and heel rounded off; blade also of black stone with polished edge and upper side (front); haft, 430 mm. long, c, collected in Tongatabu by D'Entrecasteaux Expedition; also long toe with transverse lashing; heel rounded like that of b

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