From the archive of the Kona Historical Society, this beautiful photo was printed on canvas and is ready to hang. It was featured in the exhibit, Kona Ranching and Kona Cowboys: Our Way of Life and pictures an old stone oven on the slopes of Hualalai: "Following their arrival to Hawaiʻi in 1878, Portuguese immigrants continued practicing the traditional bread baking method using a stone oven called a forno.
Kona cowboy, Frank Silva remembers his mother baking and selling Portuguese bread to supplement the family income:
'[The forno] was a big Ê»ole round stone oven with a door in the front....My father would take maybe ten loaves of bread and hang them on his saddle. And Hawaiians just loved homemade bread—five cents a loaf. And those days he used to work for one dollar a day with his sledgehammer and rocks, boiling tar and whatever else he do. So then he would make $1.25 selling bread. He would make more money selling bread than pounding rocks!' – Frank Silva, in an unpublished interview, 2000
Remnants of a forno built c. 1880 on Palani Ranch in Holualoa are captured here. Photograph by Sheree Chase, 1993."
It measures 16"x11", the canvas is a cotton/poly blend and it has a UV resistant coating.