Wooden Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Highly polished; carved from a tree bole; oval plug in bottom; series of circles & hour-glass-shaped plugs hold together 2 vertical cracks in sides of vessel."
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 made of kou wood (Cordia subcordata) carved nearly equal in width and height (kū'oho). Bowl has several repairs including pewa (bow-tie/butterfly), huini (peg), and kiki (plug) repairs. According to Jamison Ke'a Rosehill, 2024, the repairs are for several small cracks rather than two continuous vertical cracks. Height: 9"; diameter at rim: 11.5". 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E418672A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl