Loan (Exhibition)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich, October 15 2016- February 12 2017, Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific
Event Date
Author: maa

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

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads: [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3372 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Narokorokoyawa. Wai ni Mala river. Viti Levu. Bowl, Kava, priests, ai buburau ni bete. mbumburau ni mbete.' [added in pencil:] 'ai buburau: meaning not know. ni bete: belong to a priest.' [added in blue biro by G. K. Roth:] 'used by priest only: after drinking kava in or from this type of dish (the kava having been made by the chewing process) he drank a chaser of water. GKR.' [added in pencil:] '* Na Rokoroko Yawa would be in accordance with R.G.S. spelling'. [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON H�GEL COLLECTION CIRCA 1875'. [added in black ink:] '(centenary Exhibition)'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12/85'. [stamped in blue ink:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. A round red sticker pasted on the card. A black and white photograph of the object stapled to the back of the card with the following note [in black ink:] 'Yaqona pedestal bowl. Probably the one collected at Nakorovatu, July, 1875: See Baron's Journal for description. S.H.'.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Kava dish
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z. 3372' inscribed in white ink on the base and on the leg. 'O.X.486.H' inscribed in white ink on the base.
Event Date 14/11/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Circular yaqona dish carved from a single piece of dark vesi wood, with a pedestal base. Shallow platter, albeit deeper than most dishes of the kind. The lip is chipped in one place. Grey patina inside the platter. The dish rest on a leg formed of a short 'u' shape resting on a quadrangular platform with four cylindrical legs. The base is circular (14.5 cm diameter max.) and thin. Two lengths of 3-ply plaited coir are looped around the top of the leg and knotted three times. The surface is very scratched underneath the base.
Event Date 14/11/2012
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 (Surface Clean)
CON.2015.2024 | Surface Clean
Event Date 25/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Yaqona dish.
Circular with pedestal base.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Loan (Exhibition)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 15/12/2019 to 19/07/2020, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Event Date 15/12/2019
Author: Katrina Dring

Loan (Exhibition)
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachussetts, 12/09/2020 to 03/01/2021, Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Event Date 12/9/2020
Author: Katrina Dring