Help Identify, What Is This, Is This A? Thread - Collecting Tiki

R rustyblitzen Member Joined: Dec 14, 2013 Posts: 5	R rustyblitzen Posted posted on Tue, Dec 17, 2013 12:21 PM Hi All! It appears as though this object is not related to whakapokos at all, but is in fact a bone fork. There's not many references to them within the archaeological record, except via I.W. Keyes A Ceremonial Bone Fork, A Little Known Artefact Type, Supplementary Records on Bone Forks (1969, 1976, 1980), and an article by W.J. Phillips 1955 which has descriptions, depictions, and an evolution of these kinds of forks from the pre-contact era onwards. I would post these documents, but I fear they might be part of international copyright; that said, one can check out them via Inter-Library Loan. Thank you all everyone!

Hi All!
It appears as though this object is not related to whakapokos at all, but is in fact a bone fork.
There's not many references to them within the archaeological record, except via I.W. Keyes A Ceremonial Bone Fork, A Little Known Artefact Type, Supplementary Records on Bone Forks (1969, 1976, 1980), and an article by W.J. Phillips 1955 which has descriptions, depictions, and an evolution of these kinds of forks from the pre-contact era onwards.
I would post these documents, but I fear they might be part of international copyright; that said, one can check out them via Inter-Library Loan.
Thank you all everyone!

Post #702317 by rustyblitzen on Tue, Dec 17, 2013 12:21 PM