Antiques Roadshow

these are within my payment for a very long time these were my great-great grand uncle's boy pounders this is more traditional for quite bonding itself I think these were used more for either a softening meat or making condiments with leaves we have a convent in Hawaiian is called you know Moana which made our question Kukui nuts so as I kid I do remember my grandma using it as she got older to soften her Fuji is the smaller ones they are poi pounders and POI is central to the Hawaiian culture poi is made from the taro root this one is technically not a POI pounder but it is a mashup this is a property from the late 19th century and it's probably a found piece because it's seriously braided on the outside it's probably been abandoned somewhere and the water has eroded it and you can see the metal stay anywhere it's been standing on something this is also a masher it shows a lot of where it's perfectly proportioned this is for the first stage in the point pounding these are actually the poi pounders themselves okay this is also at like this one probably 19th century it's very very difficult to tell exactly how old they are right but given the ware and the aesthetics I would think they're probably from the mid 19th century this is the little beauty this is made for a very fine-grained basalt it's extremely hard to find and would take a lot longer to make than something like this it's many many man-hours right and the aesthetics as you can see this is more gradual and softly cut underneath here this is much more a profile here with a beautiful mushroom shape on the top this is an extremely rare koi pounder and was probably made for the elite have you any idea what they were my mom you see maybe $1000 first or I watched the vulture about seven years ago uh-huh and somebody on the East Coast Hara I think in between size and appraiser at that time said three thousand dollars this one the found piece they're quite common and I think probably between four and $600 this one which is a super one I think probably around about four to five thousand dollars this little panda about three to four thousand and this one which is the real choice piece here I think conservatively I would say six to eight thousand dollars well and that would be on the retail market I was always in the closet we'd probably get wrapped up and go right back in their closet you