Детали

IPSMG:R.1979.32

Ipswich Collections

Bowl, kava

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?].

Polynesia, Fiji

1800 - 1850

19th Century, early, 19th Century, middle

wood, coconut fibre

diameter: 270.00 mm