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1913.65.32

Round grey stone used for polishing calabashes. Rounded on top and flat and smooth on bottom.

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1913.65.32

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Collection type
Object
Description
Round grey stone used for polishing calabashes. Rounded on top and flat and smooth on bottom.
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source James Edge Partington
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1913
Date collected
By 1913
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1913
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Ground
Dimensions
Diameter: max 107 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1913.65.32 Other numbers: E.17
Research and responses

According to Roger Neich, Edge-Partington visited Hawaii in August/September 1897. He may thus have acquired this item then. See pages 81-82 of ‘James Edge-Partington (1854-1930): An Ethnologist of Independent Means’, by Roger Neich, in Records of the Auckland Museum, Vol. 46 (2009), pp. 57-110. (Photocopy in RDF: Biographies: Edge-Partington.) [JC 4 3 2010]

Search terms: Tool, Vessel, Polisher

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