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

Description (CMS Description)
Wood Kava Bowl
Event Date 26/5/1988
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads: [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3354 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Bowl, Kava, priests, A.H. Gordon, circa 1875.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12/70'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. [stamped in black ink:] 'CUMAA 26 MAY 1988'. A round red sticker pasted on the card. [in black pen:] 'see over'. A photo of the object pasted to the back of the card.
Event Date 26/5/1988
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Circular priests' yaqona dish, dark coloured, carved from a solid piece of vesi wood, with a cylindrical pedestal base. Length of base has 5 legs that each separate into 2 legs about two-thirds of the way down. Each divided leg becomes joined with that of its neighbour making 5 legs attached to the circular, footed base which is 14.5cm. Hatch marks evident on inner side of pedestal. Plaited length of coir (magimagi) is tied around one of the bottom legs. Top surface of dish is shallow with a curved lip and has a slight light brown patina. Surface of dish is peeling/flaking and there are numerous circular, dark brown stains.
Event Date 11/1/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
This object is visible on a photograph taken in Dufty's studio in the 1870s (See P.70830.ACH2). It was probably bought by Von Hügel from Dufty.
Event Date 14/2/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'O.X.484.G.' and 'Z- 3354' inscribed in white ink on the base. 'Z. 3354' inscribed in white ink inside the leg.
Event Date 14/2/2013
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

Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2015.2021 | Surface Clean
Event Date 25/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Yaqona dish.
Circular with a cylindrical base.
A plaited length of coir is tied around one of the bottom legs.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Context (Other)
Minor shedding of natural fibre found in packaging upon return to MAA from the exhibition 'Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific' at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich October 15 2016- February 12 2017.
Event Date 13/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

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