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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.

Kouteki

Kouteki.

The method of climbing palms in Funafuti has been described on p. 26. The "kouteki" used in that operation is illustrated by fig. 25; the side shaded in my drawing being the face applied to the palm trunk. This article is carved from a hard dark wood, perhaps Calophyllum, weighs four and a half ounces, is twenty-one inches long, two broad, and one thick.
Fig. 25

Fig. 25