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Title: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History
Identifier: acs9793.0002.003.umich.edu
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Michigan

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132 Tlif And mi I fawn iian House. ing meal for his 1)rcad. Altlioogii the imt season was a long one there were limes wlieii the siippl\- must have failed these improvident ehildren of nature, and the fat of a pig or a dog served as substitute. Doubtless a ehicf had many adzes, slingstoncs, eliilis, sinkers and many other stone im;)lcinenls about liis honsc, but these have lieen descrified in the work referred to, aaul we can onl\' here call particular attention to the ;)oi pounders which from their coutiuned use seem to eouiiect us with the stone age, as tliey were among the earliest tools fashioned bv the Hawaiian inimi";raiil on his arrival in these islands. His near-
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est patterns were in Central a.nd Sontli America. Their various forms arc shown in h'ig. 109 liere rcpeateil from the account of the stone implements as it shows the differ- ence between ;)est1es and pounders: the latter had no stone mortar to grind against, but were used on a flat and sinillow wooden trmigh, whieli, when not in use generally- leaned against the out(;r wall of the house and was plainly visible from a distance. These poi troughs (papa knipoi) were hewn from some tough wood, as ohia (Mrlyi>sidfi^o$ polyniorphii)^'"' and are either of small size for convenience in traveling, when the alii always, if possible, had their attendants earyv all the requirements for nurkiug poi, or if for home use of sufficient size l(j serve two persons pounding, one at either end and each with his own portion of kalo. A very old poi board in the Bishop '■^•;!i iiio(U-rn times tin: iiativt^K and Chinese make iiiucli use <.f the softer wood of the Monkcv-pod ( I'ithcfo^ ■-"■""" """"'"^■'- I 3'61

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