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Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form
Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form

Old Pacific Islands, Oceania Carved Wooden Food Pounder, Banana Form

$ 150.47

Availability: 90 in stock
  • Culture: Pacific Islands
  • Provenance: Ownership History Not Available
  • Handmade: Yes
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: See Item Description, pictures

    Description

    Old Pacific Islands (Oceania) carved wooden food pounder, with the pounding end in the form of a banana.  Our research considered if this was a tapa bark cloth beater or hand club.  However, because of the banana shape, concluded that this is a food pounder.  It measures 15 inches (38cm) straight-line length.
    This food pounder has seen lots of use, with well-worn incised parallel lines on the handle and banana end, cross-hatched lines on the banana end of the handle, incised X inside parallel lines on the tip of the handle
    (
    See pictures).  What looks like a crack in the handle is a natural split (age check) in the wood - still solid and usable.  We think this dates to the early 1900s, possibly older.
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