kiʻi pōhaku / akua pōhaku
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 International
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
kiʻi pōhaku / akua pōhaku
Simply worked figures made of (coral) stone with a suggested human figure or face were regarded as images of personal protective gods. Even after the introduction of Christianity in 1820, the honouring of these protective and family gods, especially among fishermen, continued for a long time. The stone figures are therefore often referred to as "fish gods", even though their actual meaning is no longer known. [UM]
Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
Show only fields containing data
Cataloguing data
Object type
Figur
Dimensions
Breite: 14.5 cm, Höhe: 23.5 cm, Tiefe: 8.3 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
087674
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
where
Hawaii
when
1913
Provenance
The object is part of a collection that the Linden-Museum received from the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Stuttgart in 1913. Augustin Krämer, who was the first director of the Linden-Museum from 1911 to 1915, acquired it during his stay in Hawai'i in 1897. Hawai'i and the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) were stopovers on his journey from South America to Sāmoa (1897-1899). The exact circumstances of the acquisition are not yet known. [UM]
Information about the record
Legal status metadata
Related objects
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
![Sôda [?]](https://iiif.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/image/2/e5c6ff3a-1bad-4251-b354-d95e204607f6/full/!600,600/0/default.jpg)
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
This content was machine-translated