Stone Cooking-Stone Fragment "Pohaku 'eho"
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: See p. 68 # 352 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. Identified there: "This stone is said to have been used as a cooking stone (pohaku-eho) [Pōhaku ʻeho]. It was heated and then put inside of the fowl, pig, or dog, which was then placed in the imu, or oven, thus expediting thorough cooking."
label: Notes
content: From card: "See 257,916 - 8".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E257874-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Stone