Stone
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 for E257927A/B and 257930-1: "These stones are claimed to have been used as no'a in the [betting] game of puhenehene (see 348-50, ). Their large size must have made the management of them in the game a more difficult matter than when the smaller stone was used. A similar game to that of puhenehene was sometimes played in the sand."" However, the card notes that E257927B, original # 146, is the same type as E258194. See also p. 75 of Smithsonian Institution. 1909. The exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909. Washington D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. # 146 is identified as a bowling stone, ulu, "though not quite spherical, these stones were used in the game of ulu-maika."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 050958
label: USNM Number
content: E257927-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game