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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1979.32 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name Bowl, kava Description Kava bowl made of wood. Dome-shaped bowl with rounded base and lug to one side, very regularly carved from a block of dark brown wood. The lug has remnants of a neatly plaited coconut fibre cord, the larger part of which is now separated. Interior has typical green patina caused by kava drink. Stuck-on handwritten label: 'G.E. Crisp Esq' [George Edwin?]. Production place Polynesia, Fiji Production date 1800 - 1850 Production period 19th Century, early, 19th Century, middle Material wood, coconut fibre Dimensions diameter: 270.00 mm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1979.32
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

Bowl, kava
Description

Kava bowl made of wood. Dome-shaped bowl with rounded base and lug to one side, very regularly carved from a block of dark brown wood. The lug has remnants of a neatly plaited coconut fibre cord, the larger part of which is now separated. Interior has typical green patina caused by kava drink. Stuck-on handwritten label: 'G.E. Crisp Esq' [George Edwin?].
Production place

Polynesia, Fiji
Production date

1800 - 1850
Production period

19th Century, early, 19th Century, middle
Material

wood, coconut fibre
Dimensions

Details