Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3498 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Earthenware vessel for holding drinking water, model of. Dr: Brady 1891.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '14/56'. [added in pencil:] '1891.38 (1) ?'. [stamped in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 14'. [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 30 JUL 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card. A black and white photograph of the object stapled to the back of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 3498 Earthenware vessel for holding drinking water, model of. Dr: Brady 1891. Show Case number 13'. [added in the bottom left corner:] '14/56'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Small manifold earthenware vessel.
Event Date 2/7/1987
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
'Z. 3498' inscribed in white ink under the spout and underneath the object.
Event Date 9/1/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Small water pot of glazed ceramic consisting of four inter-communicating tabua, vudi (plantains) or canoe hulls, two side by side in the centre and one placed perpendicularly at each end. They are all provided with a ceramic arch joining at the top to form a small platform pierced in its centre. The arches decorated with raised dots. One of the end tabua is provided with a circular aperture at the base of its arch. The other end tabua is provided with a very small cylindrical spout and one of its ends is chipped. The top-half of the globes is decorated with incised lines. The lower-half of the globes is left undecorated. The transition between the decorated and undecorated parts is mark with a line of raised dots (some chipped). Both end tabua are divided in two at the top by a longitudinal line of raised dots [Lucie Carreau, 09/01/2013].
Event Date 9/1/2013
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden