Kava Cup Pottery
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "'SACRED KAVA CUP FROM SANDAL WOOD BAY, VENNUA LEVU, JUNE 1840' ORIG. OLD LABEL TIED ON. OF POTTERY, CRUDE BLACK, SENNIT HANDLE, 4 1/4" DIA., NOT COUNTING LUG (WHICH IS PIERCED). ORIG. CAT.: "1576 CUP MADE OF EARTHENWARE, VERY OLD AND HIGHLY VALUED IN CONSEQUENCE, ONLY USED ON THE MOST IMPORTANT OCCASIONS BY THE FIJI ISLANDERS." (THIS INFORMATION GIVEN BY K.P. EMORY, BISHOP MUSEUM, 6/24/41)."
label: Notes
content: Crudely made, small black ceramic bowl. A flange with a hole through it comes off rim on one side of bowl. Through this is a short, broken sennit braid. There is a large chip missing from rim. There is a crack (previously repaired) where the flange had broken off. Has partial original Peale # label.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 27 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sandalwood Bay (Bua/Mbua Bay), Vanua Levu Island, Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2988-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 12 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 4 cm