Description:

**Originally Listed At $400**

North Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, Pre-Contact Period, ca. 18th century CE or earlier. A collection of 3 Hawaiian stone tools, one for pecking / polishing wood or stone, another for sharpening other tools, and a fragment of a blade shaped head, with a highly sharpened edges and a slight bulge in the center. The basalt tool is a pounder or sanding tool, carved from a fragment of porous volcanic stone of a soft grey hue. The stone in the rectangular form was probably meant for sharpening the stone blades used in adzes. The sturdy implement features slightly slanted ends as well as 4 sweeping faces with smooth areas from continual grinding. Size of basalt sander: 4.5" L x 2.75" W x 2.5" H (11.4 cm x 7 cm x 6.4 cm)

Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection

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  • Condition: Flattened blade is perhaps a fragment of a larger piece with a clean break along one side. Stable hairline fissures on adze sharpener. Basalt stone is intact. Wear on all three commensurate with age and use.

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