Kava Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: A CARVED, SHALLOW, WOODEN BOWL WITH EVERTED LIP, AND WITH FOUR SLIGHTLY TAPERED LEGS, & A SMALL RECTANGULAR LUG ON ONE SIDE WITH TWO HOLES THROUGH WHICH IS A REMNANT OF A LENGTH OF TWISTED COCONUT FIBER CORD. THE SHAPE OF THE BOWL IS SLIGHTLY MORE OVAL THAN CIRCULAR. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PREVIOUSLY CATALOGUED AS HAWAIIAN. EXAMINED AND IDENTIFIED AS SAMOAN BY KENNETH P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, JUNE 1941. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "8.5" DIA., 2.9" HIGH. OBVIOUSLY A SAMOAN BOWL. ORIG. CAT. "956-960 BOWLS IN WHICH A DRINK CALLED 'AVA' OR 'KAVA' IS PREPARED OF THE CHEWED ROOT OF THE PEPPER PLANT...." LOCALITY NOT GIVEN. (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K. P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: American Samoa (not certain), Samoa (not certain) / United States (not certain), Polynesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samoan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3535-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 7 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 22 cm