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 Bowl
Event Date 13/8/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads: [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3380 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Bowl, Kava, priests, A. P. Maudslay, circa 1875.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12/68'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 13 AUG 1987'. [in black pen:] 'Centenary Exhibition'. A round red sticker pasted on the card. [At the back of the card, handwritten in black pen:] 'priest's pedestal bowl for yaqona'.
Event Date 13/8/1987
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Circular priests' yaqona dish carved from a solid piece of dark vesi wood. Thick cylindrical pedestal base with a thin, ridged foot. Plaited length of coir (magimagi) is tied in hollow interior of base. Very finely plaited coir is wrapped around coir length to look like rope. Top surface of dish has a prominent lip with a muddy brown patina.
Event Date 11/1/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'O.X.493.M.' and 'Z. 3380' inscribed in white ink on the leg. 'a/-, 316' inscribed in black ink on the platter.
Event Date 4/2/2014
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 (Assessment Only)
CON.2015.2020 | Assessment Only
Event Date 25/9/2015
Author: rah99

Description (CMS Description)
Yaqona dish.
Circular priests' dish. Thick cylindrical pedestal base with a thin, ridged foot.
Plaited length of coir is tied in hollow interior of 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