![]() Early period notched adzes found in Northland were primarily made of argillite quarried from locations around the Marlborough and Nelson regions. During the Māori Archaic period found on the North Island were commonly made from greywacke from Motutapu Island or basalt from Ōpito Bay in the Coromandel, similar to adzes constructed on other Pacific Islands. Prehistoric Māori adzes from New Zealand (called toki in Māori) were for wood carving, typically made from pounamu sourced from the South Island. To this day, iron adzes are used all over rural Africa for various purposes - from digging pit latrines, and chopping firewood, to tilling crop fields - whether they are of maize (corn), coffee, tea, pyrethrum, beans, Millett, yams or a plethora of other cash and subsistence crops. Īs Iron Age technology moved south into Africa with migrating ancient Egyptians, they carried their technology with them, including adzes. It was apparently the foreleg of a freshly sacrificed bull or cow with which the mouth was touched. ![]() ![]() The ahnetjer ( Manuel de Codage transliteration: aH-nTr) depicted as an adze-like instrument, was used in the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, intended to convey power over their senses to statues and mummies. A depiction of an adze was also used as a hieroglyph, representing the consonants stp, "chosen", and used as.
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