Patupatu

The patupatu was a club-like implement used to break up and pulverise the clods of earth loosened with other implements. It was about two feet in length, the handle end being round, the balance four sided, with sharp edges and a pointed end, but this club part had not parallel sides, being swelled considerably in the middle. This was the form of implement used among the Ngati-Porou folk, but that form was by no means universal, in many places they seem to have been round in cross section. Many used them as clubs only, to pulverise clods with, but Ngati-Porou seem to have employed a form with its distal end elongated into a point that was used to loosen soil.