Description (Labels & Markings)
'104' inscribed in orange crayon on the outside of the cup.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
Outside the cup, near the lip, 'Z.3346' and 'O.X.548.H.' inscribed in white ink.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
Inside the cup, near the lip, 'Z.3346' inscribed in white ink.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Handle of sennet.
Event Date 14/8/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
The card has the following orignal von Hugel accession number: " OX 548 H" Exhibited: Old Show Case Number 12 (12/104); Collected by: Hugel.Baron.Anatole.von in - 7 1875
Event Date 14/8/1987
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3346 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Matai Lombau, Viti Levu. Tholo East province. Cup, drinking, cocoa nut, handle of sennet,"Bilovaka tautauri" See Z- 3344'. [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION circa 1875. [typed:] 'July 1875'.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12/104' '?4'and '408'. [added in blue pen:] 'O.X.548. H'. [stamped in red ink:] 'CUMAA 14 AUG 1987 TRANSCRIBED'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. A round red sticker pasted on the card.
Event Date 28/9/2012
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Yaqona cup formed of a half coconut of a very dark colour provided with a woven coir handle. The edge of the cup is pierced with 3 holes through which the coir handle is tied with 3-ply plaited coir. The handle is almost rectangular in shape and made of 3-ply plaited coir. The un-plaited ends of the woven handle form a bristly edge. A cord of 3-ply plaited coir is woven into the edge of the handle in the middle and terminates in a knot [Lucie Carreau, 28/09/2012].
Event Date 28/9/2012
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 28/9/2012
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