MAORI TOOL OR WEAPON

Indianajones · 31st January 2012, 07:56 PM

Hello, to me the tool offered on Ebay looks more like a tool to split big fruits or coconuts than a club; hence the particular piramid-shaped end to bash into the coconutfibers and with the flat end one would hit the coconut inside to open it.
This theory would perhaps seem a bit far streched to those (us) who are not familiar to handling coconuts, but this is how it is done; and especially when one didnt have a iron machete!

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31st January 2012, 07:56 PM	#4
Indianajones Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 180	Hello, to me the tool offered on Ebay looks more like a tool to split big fruits or coconuts than a club; hence the particular piramid-shaped end to bash into the coconutfibers and with the flat end one would hit the coconut inside to open it. This theory would perhaps seem a bit far streched to those (us) who are not familiar to handling coconuts, but this is how it is done; and especially when one didnt have a iron machete!