Editing Adze (section)

===New Guinea and Melanesia ===
[[File:Adzes from New Guinea.jpg|thumb|140px|right|Contemporary stone adzes from New Guinea]]
Ground stone adzes used to be produced by a variety of people in [[Western New Guinea]] (Indonesia), [[Papua New Guinea]] and some of the smaller Islands of [[Melanesia]] and [[Micronesia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Watson |first=Virginia Drew |date=1995 |title=Simple and Significant: Stone Tool Production in Highland New Guinea |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23273167 |journal=Lithic Technology |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=89–99 |jstor=23273167 |issn=0197-7261}}</ref> The hardstone would have been ground on a riverine rock with the help of water until the desired shape was obtained. It was then fixed to a natural grown angled wood with resin and plant fibers. A variety of minerals were used. Imported steel axes or [[machete]]s have now entirely replaced these tools for decades in even the remotest parts of New Guinea.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Lemonnier |first=Pierre |date=June 2004 |title=The hunt for authenticity: Stone Age Stories Out of Context |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223340410001684868 |journal=[[The Journal of Pacific History]] |language=en |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=79–98 |doi=10.1080/00223340410001684868 |issn=0022-3344}}</ref> Indeed, even before the first foreign missionaries or colonial officials arrived in the New Guinea Highlands, inhabitants had already obtained steel tools through trade with their neighbors.<ref name=":0" /> Stone tools are sometimes manufactured to be sold as curios to tourists.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dundon |first=Alison |date=July 2013 |title=Gogodala Canoe Festivals, Customary Ways and Cultural Tourism in Papua New Guinea |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ocea.5011 |journal=[[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] |language=en |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=88–101 |doi=10.1002/ocea.5011 |issn=0029-8077}}</ref>

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File:19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe.jpg|19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe
File:Making paddle with adze, Tobi, Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia.jpg|Micronesian of [[Tobi (island)|Tobi]], [[Palau]], making a paddle for his ''[[Wa (watercraft)|wa]]'' with an adze
File:WLA brooklynmuseum Boat Building Scene 2.jpg|Egyptian boatbuilding relief, featuring a workman using an adze
File:Adzes, Marshall and Yap Islands - Pacific collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05732.JPG|Adzes, Marshall and Yap Islands – Pacific collection – [[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology|Peabody Museum]], Harvard University
File:19th century knowledge carpentry and woodworking japanese adze.jpg|Japanese adze
File:Rye Shipyard- the Construction of Motor Fishing Vessels, Rye, Sussex, England, UK, 1944 D22783.jpg|Rye Shipyard – the construction of motor fishing vessels, Rye, Sussex, England, UK, 1944
File:SainteMarieAmongTheHuronsAdze.jpg|A craftsman uses an adze to square beams, and to recreate 17th-century colonial life
File:PolynesianAdze.jpg|Polynesian adze (replica), bought 2019 in [[Yap]]
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