Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. striking tools

Anotations

Scope note:

Tools used to pound, hammer, or tap materials to be flattened or mashed. The term is extended in particular to wooden tools used to pound the bark or bast of trees in the manufacture of bark cloth in African and Oceanic cultures.