Exhibition (Maudslay Gallery)
EXH.2018.4 | Pacific Currents
Event Date
Author: Remke Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Drinking cup, kava, priest's, bowl of coconut. Handle of sennet.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Collected 1876
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Fergus Clunie notes: 'Coconut shell cups of this type were used by priests in the highlands of Western Vitilevu… the cup being stood on the spirithouse floor in a ring or wreath woven from coir sinnet, while the priest knelt to suck yaqona from it through a tube, not touching the cup with his hands (Clunie, Fergus. 1986. Yalo i Viti. Suva, Fiji Museum, p. 76).
Event Date 25/9/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3326 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Nadrau Nandrau Nadrau District Tholo North. Drinking cup, kava, priests, bowl of cocoa nut handle of sennet, Knollys collection 1876.' [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12/107', '407' and 'D 98-12'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. A round red sticker pasted on the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 3326 (Nadrau) Nandrau (Nadrau) District Tholo North. Drinking cup, kava, priests, bowl of cocoa nut handle of sennet, Knollys collection 1876. Show Case number 12'.
Event Date 25/9/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Yaqona cup formed of a half coconut of a medium-brown colour provided with a woven coir handle. The inside of the cup has a yellow patina. The edge of the cup is pierced with 8 holes through which the coir handle is tied with 3-ply plaited coir. The handle forms a quarter of a circle. It is woven with 3-ply plaited coir into which have also been woven small white glass beads. The un-plaited ends of the woven handle form a bristly edge. A small cord of 3-ply plaited cord is woven into the edge of the handle in the middle. It may have served as a hanging cord but is not broken. On the back of the object, 'Z.3326' and '3968.' inscribed in white ink.
Event Date 25/9/2012
Author: maa

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

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2015.2003 | Assessment Only
Event Date 18/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Drinking cup.
Formed of half a coconut with a woven coir handle.

Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa