Material Culture

Featured Item"Classification of Polynesian Pounders: Conical. W. Pila Kikuchi"

1 document containing drawings of Polynesian pounder styles categorized by Polynesian island name.

Featured Item"Polynesian Food Pounders: Ring and Stirrup Pounders of the Hawaiian Islands. By William K. Kikuchi"

1 document containing notes, original drawings and diagrams, statistical data sheets, and references concerning Polynesian food pounders.

Featured Item"Eastern Polynesian Food Pounders: A Statistical Comparison Between Food Pounders of Hawaii, Society, Marquesas and Austral Islands. By William Pila Kikuchi"

1 document containing statistical data sheets, drawings and notes analyzing Polynesian food pounders.

Featured ItemNortheastern United States Fishhook Analysis

1 document containing list of references, eastern and northeastern fishhook drawings and research article clippings, correspondences concerning Dr.…

Featured Item"The Bark Cloth in Mesoamerica: Independent Invention or Cultural Diffusion? By William Kikuchi"

1 document containing an essay analyzing bark cloth manufacture, contrasting Mesoamerican and Oceanic methods and practices in consideration of their…

Featured Item"Notes on Bark Cloth Manufacture in Mesoamerica. After Culberts class 1968 1st Sem. Term paper."

1 document containing 68 pages of notes, references, clippings and articles on Mesoamerican bark cloth manufacture including original drawings of bark…

Featured Item"Na Koi…Adzes: A Study of Hawaiian Adzes and Their Affinities to Adzes of Tahiti"

1 17 page research report for a graduate anthropology course on adzes and their classification. The report includes maps of adze distribution in the…