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Artifact Number:
 1987.278.007

Object:
Pounder
Pohaku kui ai

Material:
 Stone

Dimensions:
 21 x 15 cm

Origin:
 Hawaii, Polynesia

Comments:
 This pohaku kui ai, made of basalt,i is a finely shaped knobbed pounder. Thick at base with a slender neck and flared knob at top. Some white flecks on the bottom of piece. It was donated in the memory of Charles Frederick Chillingworth.



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