Small Grooved Pounamu Toki

Small grooved Pounamu Toki

This is a small Toki with a curved face and a long groove to hold the cord.

I think Toki or Adze/Axe/Chisel shapes would have been some of the first forms carved in stone based cultures around the world.  Large ones would have been used for cutting down trees and shaping canoes and finer ones for wood carving with a lot of different sizes and shapes in between for a multitude of different jobs.

The stone is a beautiful dark green Pounamu that is wonderfully translucent.