- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hanai inai, porcelain sherd.
- Long description
- Hanai inai, blue-grey porcelain sherd with blue floral design on interior and blue decorative lines on exterior. The sherd is glazed and was originally part of a plate, together with two other sherds (2024.20.96-97).
- Cultural groups
- Nuaulu
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 25/01/1971
- Date collected
- 25/01/1971
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 14 August 2024
- Materials and processes
- Material Porcelain Pottery, Process Moulded, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Printed, Material Pigment, Process Glazed
- Dimensions
- Width 40 mm, Length 67 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2024.20.95 Other numbers: 1971.421
- Research and responses
The term hanai inai is used for usually large plates, mainly of Chinese origin, that constitute clan sacred valuables used in ritual and exchange at marriage; see 'Ellen Nuaulu religious practices, pp. 51-2'.
2024.20.95
Hanai inai, porcelain sherd.
2024.20.95
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