Stone Poi Pounder

Unidentifed Kānaka Maoli maker

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not dated

Stone

Overall: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Charles H. Hitchcock, Class of 1908H

13.5.689

Geography

Place Made: Hawaii, Polynesia, Oceania

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Processing

Research Area

Oceania

Not on view

Provenance

Collected by Charles Henry Hitchcock (1836-1919); given to present collection, 1899; catalogued in 1913.

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