Disc. For Games, Coral Rock
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lt. F. L. Clark
notes: label: Notes
content: GAMING STONES OF CORAL. CALLED 'ULU MAIKAI IN HAWAIIAN, USED IN MAIKAI GAME WHERE THEY WERE BOWLED BETWEEN 2 UPRIGHT PEGS . THIS SPECIMEN IS SMOOTH ON BOTH SIDES WITH A CHIP. DIAMETER: 2.5 IN., THICKNESS: 1.0625. COLLECTOR SUGGESTS THE DISKS WERE MADE OF SANDSTONE, BUT THEY ARE CORAL. ALSO WROTE, "[THE DISKS] WERE USED IN AN ANCIENT HAWAIIAN GAME, NO LONGER PRACTICED WHERE THE PLAYERS ROLLED THE STONES AS FAR AS POSSIBLE."(SRJONES11/96).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Maui, Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 006469
label: USNM Number
content: A31868-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Disk