Bake-eo

A Marshallese star name for γ Oph.

Etymology and History

spondylus mussel in whose disk Debwāāl-eo ("the drill") (67, 68 and 70 Oph) is used to drill holes to make "puka shell" necklaces

References

Abo, Takaji, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum (2019). Marshallese-English Online Dictionary. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/html/10524/19441/index.htm.