James Tylor
Kantapi Adze, 2020
timber and black paint
45 x 4 x 10 cm
$ 990.00
Kantapi is an adze constructed from either a sharp stone, quartz , bone or shell blade fixed to the end of a wooden stick using sinew and kuru yaku grass...
Kantapi is an adze constructed from either a sharp stone, quartz , bone or shell blade fixed to the end of a wooden stick using sinew and kuru yaku grass tree resin. Kantapi is used like a long handled chisel to shave timber or to scrape flesh of animals skins for bags and cloaks etc.
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