‘umeke (bowl)

Object status:
Deaccessioned
Museum number:
11-1235
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.278
Description:
Shallow wooden dish with handle; mended by inlaid wood in zigzag. The material and mending look like native Hawaiian, but the form is probably copied from Europeans.
Donor:
F. Y. Bennett
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:
1906
Department:
Oceania
Comment:
Description: "IPU HOLO'I LIMA"-"bowl", "HOLOI"-"week", "LIMA"-hand. "Kou" wood, traditional design, not worked with metal tools. Unique to Hawaii. Hiroa, Te Rangi, (Peter Buck) "Arts and Crafts of Hawaii", 1957, p. 52, Fig. 32. Brigham, William, 1908, figs. 170, 171, plate 30" "This "ipu holo'i lime" is an excellent example of traditional design, wood grain and shape aesthetic, and skilled workmanship and "Pa'henohans", or repair work. The interior ridge is for cleaning "poi", a paste-like food off the fingers. (not grease)" (Fide Barbara (Kanani) Burns) Remarks: "Exhibited 1978 "Settlement of Polynesia" Blue card: "Finger bowl ("ipu holoi lima") used to wash the hands while eating. Greasy fingers were scraped on the interior ridge. (UCLMA 11-1235)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled ‘umeke (bowl), accession number 11-1235, described as Shallow wooden dish with handle; mended by inlaid wood in zigzag. The material and mending look like native Hawaiian, but the form is probably copied from Europeans.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled ‘umeke (bowl), accession number 11-1235, described as Shallow wooden dish with handle; mended by inlaid wood in zigzag. The material and mending look like native Hawaiian, but the form is probably copied from Europeans.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled ‘umeke (bowl), accession number 11-1235, described as Shallow wooden dish with handle; mended by inlaid wood in zigzag. The material and mending look like native Hawaiian, but the form is probably copied from Europeans.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled ‘umeke (bowl), accession number 11-1235, described as Shallow wooden dish with handle; mended by inlaid wood in zigzag. The material and mending look like native Hawaiian, but the form is probably copied from Europeans.

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