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 RATHER LARGE CARVED WOODEN BOWL WITH EVERTED LIP, AND WITH FOUR SLIGHTLY TAPERED LEGS. THERE IS A LUG ON THE UNDERSIDE WHICH COMES TO A RATHER SHARP POINT AND HAS TWO HOLES IN IT, THROUGH WHICH IS TIED A LENGTH OF TWISTED CORD. THIS BOWL WAS ON PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN THE PACIFIC HALL, N.M.N.H., 1989 [exhibit dismantled in 2004]. THE BOWL WAS FILLED WITH A PLASTIC FACSIMILE OF KAVA.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BRIGHAM SAYS IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY SAMOAN. 4 LEGS, EVERTED LIPS, SENNIT CORD. SAMOA? EMORY ALSO SAYS BOWL IS SAMOAN, PHOTO SO LABELED."
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3534-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 49 cm