Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'FIJI'. [typed:] Z-3008. Narokorokoyava. Viti Levu. Forks, flesh, Found with the bleached skulls of some Mbau men who had been killed and eaten about 1870.' [added in blue pen:] '3 pronged fork, carved from solid. Knob at end of handle'. [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION CIRCA 1875.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12a/6'. [added in pencil:] '525'. A small round red sticker pasted to 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 3008. Narokorokoyava. VITI LEVU. Forks, flesh. Found with the bleached skulls of some Mbau men who had been killed and eaten about 1870.'
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Forks, flesh.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Information received by Fergus Clunie on 11 October 2011 regarding indigenous terminology of 'Cannibal' forks: 'Bulutoko is Nadroga [SW Vitilevu] terminology which probably also was used in Navosa and elsewhere in Colo. Von Hugel, who recorded the term in the field, was unsure whether it only applied to the forks composed of black tree fern wood slivers or to flesh forks generally. I'm increasingly inclined to suspect that i culanibakola/i saganibakola - literally fork of/for the human sacrifice - may (like a lot of other similarly qualified compound terms that have been recorded for artefacts) - have been more of an explanatory term applied when explaining what they were used for to outsiders rather than terms applied amongst themselves by people native to the areas in which the forks were used'.
Event Date 11/10/2011
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
'Cannibal' fork carved from a solid piece of medium-brown wood. Three prongs (probably four originally but one has been sanded down, leaving a very smooth surface), of almost equal length. The handle is cylindrical with tapering ends. The end of the handle is carved as an hourglass, the inner end being much larger and longer than the other, around which would have been tied an attachment cord (now missing). The base of the handle is pierced.
Event Date 11/10/2011
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: A small square cream label with a thin decorative blue border is pasted on the handle and reads [handwritten in brown ink:] 'E. 31.a. A.v.H.' and [in pencil on the label:] '2nd from right'. On the handle, 'Z-3008' in white ink.
Event Date 24/3/2013
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