Coconut oil
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 2013
name: label: Collector
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
label: Donor Name
content: Jean T. Chapman-Mason
notes: label: Notes
content: "1 plastic bottle with cooked Mauke coconut oil (with medicinal herb 'pi' added to it)." "Coconut has been cooked on stove (traditionally sunlight would have been used to extract oil. Coconut oil used to 'waterproof' tapa" "Pi' is the 'miracle herb' famous throughout the Cooks; it comes reputedly from the portulaca family. The use of the plant for medicine came to a 14 year old girl in a dream in Mauke [in the late 1970s]. Many Cook islanders use the oil today as a cure for burns, wounds etc. Coconut oil is now almost always made with the herb in it."
label: Notes
content: The contents of E433840 were transferred from its previous plastic water-type bottle receptacle to a new amber glass bottle by the conservator before being placed into storage.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mauke, Cook Islands, Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cook Islands Maori
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2069807
label: USNM Number
content: E433840-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Oil