An adze is an essential tool for those who work with wood by hand. Its shape and structure give you specific control while processing wood, especially when chopping curved forms, planning, and ...

A stone chopping tool found in Ireland’s earliest known human burial offers a rare peek at hunter-gatherers’ beliefs about death more than 9,000 years ago, researchers say. The curved-edge implement, ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute is incorporating a traditional Native carving method into the building of the Walter Soboleff Center in Juneau. Wayne Price is a Tlingit carver from Haines. He’s using an ...

The Pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 Big Burn by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Ed Pulaski. Pulaski combines combines an axe and an adze in one head. Wikipedia The Pulaski was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. HAFTED BASALT ADZE ATTACHED TO A ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Master carver Wayne ...

For some, the firefly is mystical, but in West-African cultures, it's a monster. For many of us, the firefly is a mystical, enchanting creature of the twilight. To the people of some West-African ...

The inter-archipelago exchange of adzes after colonisation was not considered in the widely referred to culture historical Polynesian adze typology developed by New Zealand archaeologist, Roger Duff.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object is on loan to the ...

FOUND: An adze found in the Waitotara Valley.PHOTO/FROM INTERNET Eltham man Vincent Kersey found a Maori adze while hunting in the upper Waitotara Valley - an area he has hunted for about 10 years. Mr ...