Basalt Poi Pounder
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: BASALT (IDENTIFIED AS OLIVINE WITH LARGE BASALT CONTENT) POI POUNDER WITH A SINGLE HANDLE IN THE FORM OF A STYLIZED HEAD. APPARENTLY A UNIQUE PIECE. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: ILUSTRATED IN THE "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION," VOL. IV, P. 51, CHARLES WILKES, 1845. ACCORDING TO PIILANI, MINNIE AND WILLIAM KAAWALOA, 1985, USED TO "MIX AND GRIND THE MEDICINAL HERBS - NOT FOR POI - CALLED A POHAKU LA'AU LAPA'AU. IT RESEMBLES A TONGUE AND THE FACE RESEMBLES THAT OF A MOO (LIZARD)." THERE IS A CAST OF THIS PIECE ON EXHIBIT IN THE HARVARD PEABODY MUSEUM. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: Object was on display in National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Na Mea Makamae o Hawai'i - Hawaiian Treasures", 2004-2005.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 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: Hawaiian (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Kanaka Maoli)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3513-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pounder
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 9 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 13 cm