Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1909
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Nathaniel B. Emerson
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Material, kou; shows marks of repair with pegs. This shows marks of having been in a lathe at some state of its existence.""
label: Notes
content: 'Umeke kou kū'oho - Bowl ('umeke) made of kou wood (Cordia subcordata) carved nearly equal in width and height (kū'oho). According to Jamison Ke'a Rosehill, 2024, this 'umeke has numerous repairs, including kepakepa (zigzag) repairs on the piko (bottom) of the bowl and several plug-patch repairs. The repairs likely date to the early industrialization/post-contact period (late 18th c. to early 19th c.). Bowl is machine-carved.Height: 6.5"; diameter at rim: 10.5". Kou is a tree indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands and was the favored wood for making 'umeke as it is soft and easy to carve, resistant to wood-boring insects, and does not impart a bitter flavor. Once abundant in coastal and dry lowland regions, kou was nearly extirpated in the late 19th century by the kou leafworm (Ethmia nigroapicella).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Nov 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E258202-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl