Tabu Eating-Funnel (Cast)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 May 1910
name: label: Donor Name
content: American Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Cast of a Maori korere or feeding funnel. The Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa online catalogue entry for a similar object, museum registration number OL000135 (retrieved 3-8-2011), has this to say about this type of object: "Korere are believed to be feeding funnels used primarily to pass mulched or pureed food to men of rank whose mouths are swollen from the ta moko (tattooing) operation when applied to the mouth area. However, korere may have been used more generally to pass food and liquids to men of high rank, or tohunga under the restrictions of tapu. Korere are thought to originate from the Hokianga-Northland region and generally attributed to the Nga Puhi tribes."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Zealand (Aotearoa), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Maori
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 051457
label: USNM Number
content: E259373-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Feeding Funnel Cast
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 12.2 cm