Vessel For Coconut Syrup Drink (Ilengal)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 May 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of Interior
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Polished baderirt wood. Carved out of solid, upper portion hollowed out to depth of 9 1/4", with internal diameter diminishing from 5 7/8 at top to 2 1/4" at bottom, which is flat. Externally this upper portion is 10" high, and bears 1 wide rib around mouth, 3/4" wide rib around bottom, each inlaid with 4 pieces of mother-of-pearl, upper ones being hour-glass shape with serrated edges (symbolic of giant tridacna clam) Lower ones being square in shape. Lower portion of vessel consists of 4 legs, which flare outward slightly away from bottom rib, are carved out of solid, are 3 "high, 2" wide at their upper ends, 2 1/2" wide at their lower ends. This is a small copy of a vessel, sometimes four feet in diameter, kept in the Men's House (abai), which was filled with a cocoonut syrup drink (bluluch), made from boiled juice of tapped coconut flower with water added, when there was a party or visitors. A coconut cup (e.g. No. 394,591) used for individual service. Made by Udoud of Peliliu"
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Peleliu, Palau, Micronesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Palauan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 213418
label: USNM Number
content: E394590-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel