Word: stove
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Several gifts have been made by Dr. Agassiz and Dr. W. Mc M. Woodworth to the ethnological collection from the South Sea Islands at the Peabody Museum. The gifts from Dr. Agassiz consisted of a wooden model of a Fiji canoe, a cooking stove for use on canoes, and a very old Fiji bowl...
...stove, which is very old, is made of terra cotta glazed with gum, and is probably the only one of its kind in this country. When in use, it was set on a bed of sand, on the deck of a canoe, and then heated for cooking purposes. The exact method employed has not yet been determined, for the stove was broken in transportation, and the pieces have not yet been fitted together...