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This acrobatic human figure with feet "u" shaped to serve as a spear rest, is beyond a doubt the most finely sculpted of all known Hawaiian support figures. Captain William Trotter collected the original on his ship "Susan" in 1796. His descendants kept the figure in a fishing hut on a tiny island in Maine where several generations of adults and children referred to it as the "Sandwich Isle Fishing Idol". |
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| In the book "Hawaiian Sculpture", authors Haley Cox and William H. Davenport explain that secular carvings such as this one which have no use in religious ceremonies, were highly valued possessions of 18th Century Polynesians. According to Cox and Davenport, "Carvings such as these were heirlooms of the Ali'i (royalty) to be passed on to succeeding generations as objects of high value." Strictly possessions of the royal family, these figures would never be found in the hut of a common Hawaiian fisherman. | ||||||||||
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