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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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