19th Century
Height 13" Length 19"
Provenance: Dr. Abe and Dr. Paula Rosman, New York
Collected by Jonathan Millet 1870 - 1880 with invoice dated March 29, 2015 stating as such.
This well used example would have been used by rubbing a split coconut along a shell edge to shred the meat. The graceful stool is wonderfully minimalist, a style characteristic of the island, which is a remote coral atoll with a population of just under 400 people.
According to "The Coconut in Micronesia" by Leo Migvar, "The coconut palm is the most important tree crop for the people of Micronesia and provides the major cash export - copra. It not only provides the money to buy sugar, salt, and clothes but also provides daily subsistence. If the palm were not present, most of the atolls would today be uninhabited." (Agricultural Extension Circular Number 3, Saipan, Mariana Islands: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1965)
This is one of the earliest documented graters to appear in the marketplace. Rare.
19th Century
Height 13" Length 19"
Provenance: Dr. Abe and Dr. Paula Rosman, New York
Collected by Jonathan Millet 1870 - 1880 with invoice dated March 29, 2015 stating as such.
This well used example would have been used by rubbing a split coconut along a shell edge to shred the meat. The graceful stool is wonderfully minimalist, a style characteristic of the island, which is a remote coral atoll with a population of just under 400 people.
According to "The Coconut in Micronesia" by Leo Migvar, "The coconut palm is the most important tree crop for the people of Micronesia and provides the major cash export - copra. It not only provides the money to buy sugar, salt, and clothes but also provides daily subsistence. If the palm were not present, most of the atolls would today be uninhabited." (Agricultural Extension Circular Number 3, Saipan, Mariana Islands: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1965)
This is one of the earliest documented graters to appear in the marketplace. Rare.
