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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Oceanic; Polynesian; Fijian
Title:Kava bowl
Date Made:19th or early 20th century
Type:Food Service
Materials:Wood and natural fiber
Place Made:Oceania; Melanesia; Fiji
Measurements:overall: 5 3/4 in x 17 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 43.815 cm
Accession Number:  MH SK E.12.A.35.4
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: A kava bowl from the Fiji Islands. Used by the natives for mixing and serving their intoxicating drink. Done in a hard dark brown wood, shaped by hand, the bowl aout 1 1/4" thick, 14 1/4" inside diameter; with twelve straight legs around the outside on which the bowl rests. Between two of the legs is a fill in, perforated with two holes, through which is a braided vegetable fiber cord, by which the bowl may be hung up when not in use. Cat. 6/14/1938.

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indigenous people

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