Discoid

Museum number:

11-1779

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.587

Description:

Discoidal stone.

Donor:

Mrs. Jackson R. Myers

Collection place:

Kauai, Hawaiian Windward Islands, Hawaiian Islands

Verbatim coll. place:

Hawaii; Kauai; Kauai

Culture or time period:

Hawaiian

Collector:

Jackson R. Myers

Collection date:

1900-1917

Object type:

ethnography

Accession date:

1922

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

diameter 2.875 inches and height 1.25 inches

Comment:

Description: "Mortar (see depressions, either side), perhaps used for hammering (see abrasions). One surface is straight, the opposite convex. Lava." "2 7/8" diam x 1 1/4" thick" (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, September 23, 1987). Remarks: "See Te Rangi Hiroa (Peter Buck) Arts & Crafts of Hawaii, 1957 Bishop Museum Press.

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