Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads: [in blue ink:] '54.336. Oceania. Fiji. No exact provenance. C + d. G.K. Roth.' [typed on a rectangle of paper glued to the card:] 'KAVA DISH (or is it an oil dish ?) on stand with circular base supporting double stem. Obtained about 1935.)' [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 10 SEP 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. A round red sticker pasted on the card. A black and white photograph of the dish attached to the back of the card.
Event Date 10/9/1987
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
On stand with circular base supporting double stem
Event Date 10/9/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
'Annual Report of the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology on the Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology, 1954-55 [21 November 1955], List of Accessions to the Museum, 1954-55: 'Roth, Mr G. K.: Ethnological material, Fiji (54. 335-342)' (1955:4).
Event Date 4/1/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Wooden priest dish, circular in shape with a ring pedestal base. Two legs projects from inside the ring inwards then upwards forming two mirrored 'L'. The base has two holes on either sides near the legs, and from one of these holes on each side a small piece of coconut coir cord emerges. The coir is plaited and died black. It appears that the cord was designed to hold parts of the base together as a result from an intentional or unintentional crack on both sides of both legs. This cord repair is indigenous, but there are also traces of glue visible in these cracks which indicates previous museum conservation repairs. The surface of the dish has several white spots of ?paint on it. The side of the lip also has spots of white ?paint on it. There is a small crack extending inwards from the lip and the surface is scratched all over. There are several indentations at the bottom of the dish.
Event Date 4/1/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: '54.336' inscribed in white ink underneath the dish.
Event Date 4/2/2014
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
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