. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. POl POUNDERS, 37 kalo, as in some Micronesiaji islands, tlic edible substance is pounded with similar pestles of wood or stone. The root of the halo ( Colocasia csfulmld) is cooked and then pounded on large w'oodeu dishes, with no inconsiderable lal)or, into a tough and pasty dough which is then in turn diluted with water and allowed to sour as a paste. This is the favorite food among the Polynesians l)oih _voiiiig and old, a,nd it seeurs to confute the popular idea that tnjpi
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. POl POUNDERS, 37 kalo, as in some Micronesiaji islands, tlic edible substance is pounded with similar pestles of wood or stone. The root of the halo ( Colocasia csfulmld) is cooked and then pounded on large w'oodeu dishes, with no inconsiderable lal)or, into a tough and pasty dough which is then in turn diluted with water and allowed to sour as a paste. This is the favorite food among the Polynesians l)oih _voiiiig and old, a,nd it seeurs to confute the popular idea that tnjpical peoples will not by choice do hard work. Certaiiilv poi. pounding was the hardest breaxi-makiug know-n among the nations, and the labor fell to the lot of the men alone. But it is not so much the wcudc done wdth these pounders, which will |)roperlY be considered in the chapter on Food, as the work expended iu making tlieui, and also the variation in fcnnns that we a:re to study here. iCvery i«ip(u-tant group in Polynesia (nsing poi) had its own pattern, and as the\' Inive Ijceu siuuewhat mixed in nnisennis and private collections, a very brief notice of these forms must be given here. Tlie group with which iu traditional iiuies the Ha,waiians had the: closest connetRion through their long voyages, had a form cpiite distinct from ajyv known to their visitors, and yet the Taliitian form is often^ attril)Uted to the klawaiian islands becairsc the iuter- txju,rse in the peiiod when the whaling industry flourished in these waters brought manv Taliitian things to Honolulu wdiich l)ecanie a point for their redistribution to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press
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