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Object Number
48-56-70/3108
Display Title
Large carved wooden kawa bowl - old and valuable
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Bowl, carved wood, 4 legs, 2 broken, perforated element, twisted fiber cord
Classification
- Bowl
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Fiji
Materials
Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 61.3 x 64 x 19.8 cm (24 1/8 x 25 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Quantity
3
Label on object
48-56-70/3108
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Harry Clark
(1917 - 1948)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 48-56-70/3105 | Straight sennit bound club - old and very valuable |
Club
|
Fiji
| |
| 2004.24.32124 | Preparing kawa, Rotuma. Men sitting around three women preparing kawa. |
Fiji
| ||
| 2003.1.540 | Carved wooden bowl, large, shallow, 4 legs, perforated knob on bottom. |
Bowl
| ||
| 48-51-70/2956 | Shell valuable brought in by foreigners (jar - ni nobochai) |
Currency
|
Yap Islands
| |
| 2004.24.32125 | Two men drinking kawa |
Samoa
| ||
| 48-51-70/2958 | Piece of shell valuable - 4 pieces of shell suspended from cord (jar + |
Currency
|
Yap Islands
| |
| 51-15-40/6291 | Painted wooden container for valuables |
Box
|
Finland
| |
| 48-51-70/2957 | Shell valuable brought in by foreigners (jar - ni nobochai) |
Ornament
|
Yap Islands
| |
| 99-12-70/53521 | Wooden bowls joined with cord |
Bowl
|
Fiji
| |
| 14-29-70/85729 | Wooden kava bowl |
Bowl
|
Samoa
| |
| 48-51-70/2959 | Single disc of shell (Gau) from a string which is used as a valuable |
Bead
|
Yap Islands
| |
| 98-8-70/51725 | Kava bowl with four legs |
Bowl
|
Fiji
|