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Tuluma are carved from a single block of wood with notched interior rim. Tuluma
are made in many sizes and are used on board, especially as tackle boxes. The
boxes are designed to be tied shut and be water tight. This old box retains
a portion of its fiber tie which passed through the lid finial and would have
secured it to the perforated lugs on either end of the body of the container.
See Gordon Macgregor, "Ethnology of Tokelau Islands" [Bernice P. Bishop Museum,
Bu. 146] Honolulu, [1937] 1971 (Pl. 9B). |
