Poi Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1932
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mary M. Walcott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Data pending. Donor said "purchased from the Kaukalani Collection of Maui"."
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: Notes
content: 'Umeke kou kū'oho - Bowl ('umeke) made of kou wood (Cordia subcordata) carved slightly taller than wide (tall kū'oho). According to Jamison Ke'a Rosehill, 2024, the repairs are more recent given the machine-produced precision of the pewa (bow-tie or butterfly) repairs. 'Umeke also has kiki (plug) repairs, huini (peg) repairs, and a poho (patch) repair on the piko (bottom). The exterior is finished with Danish oil. Height: 8.5"; diameter at rim: 9.5". Kou is a tree indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands and was the favored wood for making 'umeke as it is soft and easy to carve, resistant to wood-boring insects, and does not impart a bitter flavor. Once abundant in coastal and dry lowland regions, kou was nearly extirpated in the late 19th century by the kou leafworm (Ethmia nigroapicella).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Nov 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: 117667
label: USNM Number
content: E362474-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl