Adze-Blade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 11 Feb 1889
label: Collection Date
content: 1889
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CHIPPED AND POLISHED."
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book says "Pohaku koi" (a.k.a. ko'i pohaku), which is "stone adze" in Hawaiian, and also "Hilo". This information is presumably from a label that was formerly on this adze. See E130558 which still has its label.
label: Notes
content: The Wa'a Project, established by Joshua Bell, Curator of Globalization (NMNH), included a Recovering Voices Community Research Visit June 16-27, 2018. The visit brought master and apprentice Hawaiian and Māori canoe carvers and builders to study E164016-0, a historic Hawaiian wa'a (canoe). The group included: Raymond Bumatay, master Hawaiian canoe carver; Alexander 'Alika' Bumatay, master Hawaiian canoe carver; James Eruera, master Māori canoe carver; Bryce Motu, apprentice Māori canoe carver; Leslie 'Les' Matiu (O'Connor), apprentice Māori canoe carver; Kālewa Correa, Curator of Hawai'i and the Pacific at Smithsonian's APAC; Alexis Ching, apprentice Hawaiian canoe carver and documentary book maker; Dino Morrow, documentary photographer; Shannon Hennessey, APAC intern. Ray Bumatay noted this adze is for getting in tight spaces in the canoe.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hilo, Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) Island, Hawaii (Hawaiʻi), United States, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021664
label: USNM Number
content: E130557-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Adze