IMPORTANT LARGE PRE CONTACT HAWAII CARVED STONE AUMAKUA FIGURE - NO RESERVE

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IMPORTANT LARGE PRE CONTACT HAWAII CARVED STONE AUMAKUA FIGURE - NO RESERVE:
$2025.00

IMPORTANT LARGE PRE CONTACT HAWAII CARVED STONE AUMAKUA FIGURE - !

Wow this important Honolulu Estate Find comes from a major private collection that has stored these rare stone artifacts for over 25 years!

This is a HUGE ‘Aumakua stone sculpture, weighing 15 pounds and 11 ounces! Quite beautiful in its form, with really dimensionalqualities at all angles. Rarely do such objects surface on the market. Do not miss your opportunity toacquire such an incredible stone object. Read below for more information on ‘Aumakua!

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15 1/2\" x 9\" x 61/2\" inches
Weight 15 pounds 11 ounces

About ‘Aumakua (Arts and Crafts of Hawaiiby Sir Peter Hiroa Buck, p. 495):\"Stone was used a good deal to represent family or craft gods, ‘aumakua. Some individuals were content to use pieces of unworked stone, whereas others made rough representations of the human figure. It Should be remembered that it was not the workmanship but the prayers and offerings which gave a material object power (mana) and converted it into a god, no matter what the form. Thus any individual could make a stone god for himself; and themanufacture of gods, particularly by fishermen, continues for some time after theacceptance of Christianity. Worked stone representing the human form in part or in whole was termed a ki‘i pohaku (stone image), and it was only after the necessary ritual that itbecame an akua pohaku (stone god). After the general acceptance of Christianity, many keepers of the stone gods hid them, either from lingering sentiment or because they were afraid to destroy them by breaking them up. This they have been found in caved, in concealment cavities in stone piles, in taro swamps, and buried underground. Some were kept by families, particularly by fishermen, who saw nocontraadiction to Christianity in keeping a good luck talisman which increased the supply of fish.\"
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