Spear rest
This rare spear rest would have been fixed to a canoe to hold barbed spears. The human-like figures were made by a specialist canoe carver (kahuna kalai wa’a), and possibly represents the menehune; the stout and muscular mythical ancestors and builders of Polynesian folklore.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 46/1908
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Religion and magic
- Material
- wood (kou) | pearl shell | | |
- Common Name
- spear rest
- Simple Name
- spear rest
- Production Town
- Production County
- Hawai’i
- Production Country
- Hawaiian Islands (United States of America)
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- 1700s
- Production Year High
- 1908
