Fine Serving Bowl, Hawaiian Islands
Fine Serving Bowl, Hawaiian Islands
pohaku ku'i poi
Wood (probably kou)
Diameter 11in (28cm)
Provenance
Hawai'i Private Collection
This fine and early bowl, most likely stone carved from kou wood, exhibits pre-contact patination repairs; the fine, varied light and dark brown "marbled" surface with indigenous repairs including a "butterfly" (pewa) patches and peg (huini) patches along other cracks.
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Fine Serving Bowl, Hawaiian Islands
pohaku ku'i poi
Wood (probably kou)
Diameter 11in (28cm)
Provenance
Hawai'i Private Collection
This fine and early bowl, most likely stone carved from kou wood, exhibits pre-contact patination repairs; the fine, varied light and dark brown "marbled" surface with indigenous repairs including a "butterfly" (pewa) patches and peg (huini) patches along other cracks.
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