Wooden dish on a whirl of 6 open-work sloping legs on a round base; the edge of the bowl ornamented with a crenellated 'fringe'. The vessel is made of vesi wood. [El.B 01/11/2011]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden dish on a whirl of 6 open-work sloping legs on a round base; the edge of the bowl ornamented with a crenellated 'fringe'. The vessel is made of vesi wood. [El.B 01/11/2011]
Geographical reference: Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884
Date collected: Prior to 1884
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Polished
Dimensions: Diameter: max 357 mm, Height: max 135 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.6.20 PR Cat other PR nos: 3174
Research and responses: Examined on the 12th/13th June by Fergus Clunie and Andy Mills as part of the work of the AHRC-funded project 'Fijian Art: Political Power, Sacred Value, Social Transformation and Collecting Since the 18th Century' (2011-2014). His notes read: i buburau - priestly/godly yaqona & encrustation dish. Having kava to entire interior of dish but the rim polished clean. Serrated (pyramidal teeth) authntic to underside of rim is dignostic of god vessels. [FB 18/06/2012]
A tazza is a shallow saucer-shaped bowl mounted on a pedestal [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]