Pōhaku (stone)

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
11-1900
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Accession number:
Acc.587
Description:
Stone. With 2 legs carved from solid block of lava. Rare piece of which the Bishop Museum has a plaster cast.
Donor:
Mrs. Jackson R. Myers
Collection place:
Kilauea Plantation, Kauai, Hawaiian Windward Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
Hawaii; Kauai; Kilauea Plantation
Culture or time period:
Hawaiian
Collector:
Jackson R. Myers
Collection date:
1905-1917
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1922
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
length 7.5 inches and height 5.5 inches
Comment:
Description: "This is a block grinder." (fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns, May 20, 1988). Remarks: "Illus. Kirch, Patrick "Feathered Gods and Fishhooks" 1985, p. 110, fig. 84." "Exhibited 1978 Settlement of Polynesia.
Loans:
S1977-1978 #21: Doe Library (UC Berkeley) (December 7, 1977–March 9, 1978) and S1987-1988 #10: Bowers Museum (August 1987–February 16, 1988)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Pōhaku (stone), accession number 11-1900, described as Stone. With 2 legs carved from solid block of lava. Rare piece of which the Bishop Museum has a plaster cast.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pōhaku (stone), accession number 11-1900, described as Stone. With 2 legs carved from solid block of lava. Rare piece of which the Bishop Museum has a plaster cast.

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