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Human effigy bowl
Object Number 99-12-70/53571
Display Title Human effigy bowl
Descriptions
Object Description Carved elliptical bowl...is supported at each end by a human figure looking upward... [T]he arms and legs project inward under the bowl to meet in the middle line. It is labled as a "wooden dish" and may have been used as the individual meat dish of a chief or even as an "'awa" drinking bowl.
Inventory Description Bowl, oval, supported by 2 anthropomorphic figures, cracked, worn
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 31 x 13.7 x 9.3 cm (12 3/16 x 5 3/8 x 3 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53571
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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