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Object Number 2004.24.17277
Display Title Pottery water drinking vessel
Descriptions
Object Description Pottery water drinking vessel (Kuroniwai) Figi Islands. Taken by F.P. Orchard. November, 1944. Cat. No. 55224.
Keywords
  • Studio
  • Household
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Drinking
  • Vessel
  • Pottery
  • Jug
  • Carved
  • Container
Department Photographic
Date 1944
Artist Frederick P. Orchard
Culture
  • Melanesia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 x 12.7 cm (3 1/2 x 5 in.)

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