Ipu ani, "bone dish", handled wooden bowl, in which bones and remnants of chief's food are deposited for secret disposal. 1237-41 received at museum varnished.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Island of Hawai'i, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dishes (vessels for food)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Description: "IPU 'AINA - refuse bowls with suspensory knobs. Hiroa, Te Rangi, (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii", pp. 53-54" (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) Remarks: "Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia" Blue card: "Scrap bowls (ipu 'aina) were used by chiefs to hold fishbones and food scraps which, if not guarded and carefully disposed of, could be used to weaken or kill chiefs by sorcery. (UCLMA 11-1238)
Loans:
S1963-1964 #51: Design Department (UC Berkeley) (November 27, 1963–January 11, 1964), S1977-1978 #21: Doe Library (UC Berkeley) (December 7, 1977–March 9, 1978), and S1987-1988 #10: Bowers Museum (August 1987–February 16, 1988)