1909.34.25

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden food dish with four legs and twisted fibre cord tied around tied around the handle. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/8/2016]

Long description

Wooden food dish with four legs and twisted fibre cord tied around tied around the handle. Oval bowl with point at one end. The other end extends into a flat handle with a diamond or lozenge shape directly next to the bowl which finishes as a narrow rectangle and a down turned end. There are four cylindrical feet. It appears to have been carved from a single piece of wood. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/8/2016]

Geographical reference

Fiji

Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji

Person

Field collector Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn

PRM source Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn

Date / Period

Date made: Before 07/1909

Date collected

By July 1909

Acquisition information

Donated: 1909

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Coconut Fibre Plant, Material Sennit Coconut Seed Fibre Plant, Process Carved, Process Twisted

Dimensions

Width: max 65 mm, Height: max 65 mm, Length: max 430 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1909.34.25

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: Feet/sucu markedly conical Nadroga? old yaqona dish prob Highland/western Vitilevu. Plant = vau. [FB 18/06/2012]

Search terms: Vessel, Food and Drink, Food Accessory, Bowl, Plate