Tigo axe

This type of small axe is typical of Wuvulu Island.
However, we do not know the exact use of this instrument.
Count Festetics de Tolna, in his 1904 book (Vers l’Ecueil de Minicoy après huit ans dans l’Océan Pacifique et Indien à bord du yacht Tolna) speaks of “hatchets made of turtle belly scales used to dig pirogues”.
Kevin Conru (Art of the Bismark Archipelago. 2013, page132) considers that these hatchets were used as spatulas for taro dishes.
Finally, and most likely, according to R. & M. Force (The Fuller collection of Pacific Artifacts. 1971, page 292), this tool was used to cut breadfruit.