Am Ur-Quell: Am Ur-Quell, 4/6.1893/96

Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, 81/82.1985/86

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Titel:: Am Ur-Quell

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Titel:: Am Ur-Quell, 4/6.1893/96

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1890

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Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Band 4, 1893, Heft 1

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Analecta et Additamenta 289 bowl for serving food. Sometimes each group or family divide the food into flax baskets termed kono. It is interesting to note that down to as late as 200 years ago, a similar community food bowl was in use in Great Britain. A Maori bowl in the State Museum °f Ethnology, Berlin, is seen in a photograph with this article (pi. 1 a). This is produced at one end into a handle a little broken at the extremity. Bowls of this shape are rare m New Zealand. The carving on the lower surface is somewhat unfinished, but is of a well known class termed pakura which here appears in some six rows. A conven tionalised human face modified to fit the area is on the handle. This bowl or kumete may be from the East Coast. It was usual to take food from a kumete with the fingers ; but sometimes a special fork or other implement was used. In the British Museum there is an elabor ately carved bone fork with four prongs only one of which is not broken. This object ls 8 inches long and shows evidence of wear. Fig. 1. Stone kumete in Dominion Museum, Wellington. 12 inches long, 8 inches wide, 2 1 / i inches interior depth. An unusual type of Maori stone bowl is in the Bollon’s collection in the Domi- 110n Museum (fig. 1). This is made from hard calcareous sand-stone, and, unlike most essels of sand-stone, holds water quite well. The lip for pouring is an unusual feature, P ich can be well seen in our diagram. The bowl is 12 inches long and 8 inches wide, s interior depth being 2 1 / i inches. Unfortunately the history of this bowl is unknown. ° Ave can on ^y conjecture on its possible use. Perhaps it was a special bowl for holding . e expressed juice of the berries of the tutu, hinau, miro or other forest products — or j ma y have been the tapu bowl of an aristocratic family. This type resembles a Mani- 11 i (Cook Islands) bowl and closely resembles a wooden bowl in Auckland Museum. An old photograph of a kumete carved in the shape of an animal is in the Domi- Uon Museum photographic collection gathered together by Augustus Hamilton P ^ The head of the animal is remarkable in being closed in front and open at the side. A short tail is present. It is difficult to decide just what animal the carver intended ° portray. New Zealand has no land mammals and the Maoris knew only a dog and a rat which they imported with them. The lizard was sometimes carved, but no ^tortion of the carving of this animal was permitted. The turtle is rare on North Island °asts, but was not altogether unknown to a number of coastal tribes ; so perhaps it ls represented here. The history of this kumete is that it was obtained by Major General Robley ngland) from the descendants of an old New Zealand Missionary in August, 1901. t is described as being painted with red paint, 32 inches long and 16 inches wide. Sometimes an incantation called Taumaha is said over food in a kumete. This Nullifies tapu and its evil effects as conveyed to the body in food. It is a precautionary grace before eating”, readily understood by Maori people even to-day. W. J. Phillipps, Dominion Museum, Wellington, New Zealand. Anthropos 47. 1052 19

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