Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3472 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Ring, of wood, carved, on which to stand Yangona strainer when used for making Kava, or for drinking cup. A. H. Gordon circa 1875.' [added in pencil:] '1918-213 (51)'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '13/226'. [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 31 AUG 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 13'. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card. [in pencil on the back of the card:] 'Kai Colo'.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z 3472. Ring, of wood, carved, on which to stand Yangona strainer when used for making Kava, or for drinking cup. A. H. Gordon circa 1875. Show Case number 13.'
Event Date 31/7/1987
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Carved ring on which to stand Yangona strainer when used for making Kava, or for drinking cup
Event Date 31/7/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the Antiquarian Committee to the Senate with Lists of Accessions for the Years 1917 and 1918 [6 March 1919], List of Accessions from January 1 to December 31, 1918: '1918.213. Additions to the Gordon Collection: (1) Hair ornaments of coco-palm film; (2-13) twelve necklaces with pendants ground out of sperm whale teeth, including one of unusually large size and one with peculiar taper pendants; (14-16) three breast-ornaments: composite plates of irregular oval outline with serrated edges, formed of whale-tooth ivory plaques and centres of pearl-shell with ivory inlay; one unusually large (10" x 10".8) with circular shell centre, bearing an angular pendant device of ivory; one (7".8 x 7".8) with square centre inlaid with a pair of crossed ivory fillets forming a St Andrew's cross, and four roundlets; and one (6".5 x 7".8) with oblong centre, bearing a single four-rayed star; (17) a penannular boar's tusk, worn as a pendant by men of position; (18) a bundle of folded lengths of thin, white bark cloth, used for turbans, scarves, etc.; (27) an oblong door-step of hard wood; (28) seven floor-mats: three ornate and four plain; (19) a bale of thick white bark cloth; (20) a large piece of bark cloth bearing a bold design in black and white; (29) a small mat for carrying an indent; (64) a child's paddle; (62) a boy chief's cylindrical club with carved grip; (30) a fan of variegated plaited coconut-leaf; (31) a number of baskets; (32-49) eighteen earthenware vessels of various forms; (50) a carved coconut receptacle for oil; (61) an incised bamboo receptacle for tobacco leaves; (52, 53) two small four legged kava bowls (circular and oval); (51) a carved wooden ring-stand for kava strainer; (54-60) seven unusually large, ground and enamelled coconut drinking-cups; (23-25) three old men's sticks; (21, 22) two fly-whisks of coconut-fibre; (63) a chief's palm-leaf war fan; (66-73) eight tambua (polished sperm whale teeth, used as tokens of good faith) with ornate loop of plaited coconut-fibre: some of the teeth are ground into symmetrical forms and stained red. These tambua were presented to the first Governor of Fiji (Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon) at the cession of the Islands and on other ceremonial occasions, 1876-1880; (65) a wooden vei-tinka head, inlaid with sperm whale ivory roundels; and (26 a and b) a pair of models of a mbure (spirit-house) made of plaited coconut-fibre cord. The Lord Stanmore.
Event Date 25/9/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Large ring of wood used as a stand for a yaqona strainer. The outer surface is decorated with vertical and horizontal bands of zigzags. A very large crack on one side. '1918.213.51.' and 'Z. 3472' inscribed in white ink on the edge of the object.
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

Context (Amendments / updates)
While historic provenances included official place names such as Colo East, Colo West etc, the names 'Kai Colo and the anglicanised 'Kai Tholo' are disparaging terms. This was used to refer to groups in the interior, such as 'Colo people', rather than 'Colo', meaning hill or mountain. The closest polite translation is 'hillbillies', but it is/was often used more abusively.
From notes by Professor Nicholas Thomas, 20/7/2020
Event Date 20/7/2020
Author: rachel hand