Poi pounder
This pounder was used to pound breadfruit to make poi, the staple food.
Collected by R.F.S. Merrick in 1924-25, during the British Scientific Expedition to the Pacific. Made in the late 19th century at the latest.
Collected by R.F.S. Merrick in 1924-25, during the British Scientific Expedition to the Pacific. Made in the late 19th century at the latest.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 96/1993/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Household objects
- Material
- vesicular lava
- Common Name
- poi pounder
- Simple Name
- pounder
- Production Town
- Hiva-Oa
- Production County
- Marquesas Islands
- Production Country
- French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
