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Adze made of iron, wood, sinnet, vegetable fibre. The handle and head are in two pieces lashed together with fine cocoa-nut cinet and are made of pale buff wood. The blade is a thin piece of iron ?hoop fixed into a slit in the lower part of the head and lashed round with cord of twisted fibre.
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