Title: Lot of 22 Hawaiian stone artifacts, including some from the collection of Leo Fortess Author: ** Place: [Hawaii] Publisher: Date: [pre-1800s] Description: Lot of 22 stone artifacts comprising: 3 small bowls; 4 dense basalt game/throwing balls (dia. 2-2½); 11 ulu maika game stones (2-4½); 4 sling stone weapons (1¾x2½). Some items, identified with small numbered tags, are from the collection of Leo Fortess. Leo Fortess, known for his prolific collection of Pacific artifacts, arrived in Hawaii in 1941 on the 76-foot schooner Chance, which he and his wife Lillian and two other couples piloted from New York to Hawaii via the Panama Canal. Fortess began collecting Polynesian artifacts as the Chance passed through the Marquesas Islands and Tahiti in 1940-41, an interest he maintained the rest of his life. Fortess served as one of the few non-academic presidents of the Anthropological Society of Hawaii and was a life member of the Bishop Museum and Honolulu Academy of the Arts. The "self-taught" Fortess proposed the use of the then-new carbon-14 dating technology to Dr. Kenneth Emory of the Bishop Museum. Lot Amendments Condition: Several ulu maikas nicked; one bowl with traces of unknown substance; overall good. Item number: 196293
Title: Lot of 22 Hawaiian stone artifacts, including some from the collection of Leo Fortess Author: ** Place: [Hawaii] Publisher: Date: [pre-1800s] Description: Lot of 22 stone artifacts comprising: 3 small bowls; 4 dense basalt game/throwing balls (dia. 2-2½); 11 ulu maika game stones (2-4½); 4 sling stone weapons (1¾x2½). Some items, identified with small numbered tags, are from the collection of Leo Fortess. Leo Fortess, known for his prolific collection of Pacific artifacts, arrived in Hawaii in 1941 on the 76-foot schooner Chance, which he and his wife Lillian and two other couples piloted from New York to Hawaii via the Panama Canal. Fortess began collecting Polynesian artifacts as the Chance passed through the Marquesas Islands and Tahiti in 1940-41, an interest he maintained the rest of his life. Fortess served as one of the few non-academic presidents of the Anthropological Society of Hawaii and was a life member of the Bishop Museum and Honolulu Academy of the Arts. The "self-taught" Fortess proposed the use of the then-new carbon-14 dating technology to Dr. Kenneth Emory of the Bishop Museum. Lot Amendments Condition: Several ulu maikas nicked; one bowl with traces of unknown substance; overall good. Item number: 196293
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