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Penu

human history
  • Other Name

    Pounder (English)

  • Description

    Penu. Stone pounder. This penu (pounder) has been worked and smoothed from ofa'i (stone). It has a cone shaped shaft that widens out at the base to a pronounced rounded rim. The pounding surface is slightly convex. At the grip end the penu is topped with raised grooves. The penu is grey in colour.

  • Place
    Tahiti/Society Islands/French Polynesia/Pacific
  • Accession Number
    1936.236
  • Accession Date
    21 Aug 1936
  • Other Id

    22689 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

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  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Penu, 1936.236, 22689, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital, 27 Dec 2017, Cultural Permissions Apply

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