Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'Z 3339 FIJI'. [typed:] 'Bowl, Kava, diameter 30 1/2". The Hon: (Miss) Nevill Gordon 1920. Original A. H. Gordon collection circa 1875'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '12/2'. [added in blue pen:] '31" diam. 7" h.' [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 12'. A round red sticker pasted on the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in blue pen:] 'Z 3339 FIJI. Kava bowl. A. H. Gordon 1875. Original card missing. This card made 08/09/1999. Alison Brown'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Kava dish
Event Date 1/9/1997
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Very large yaqona bowl carved from a solid piece of vesi wood. Circular in shape. The wood is of a brown-red colour. The inside of the bowl has an orange patina. The lip is flat and about 6.5 cm thick. The dish rests on four thick circular legs, slightly tapering. A triangular lug carved with vertical grooves is placed under the lip. It is pierced with two holes to which is attached a long cord of coir (about 180 cm long). The cord is formed of 12 cords of 3-ply plaited coir 3 x 4 strands are ten braided together, forming three cords that are then twisted together. For about 11cm after the lug, the 3-ply plaited coir cords are wrapped in another 3-ply plaited cord that terminates in a knot from where originate the large twisted cord. One of the strands of the cord is broken at the lug. One deep crack runs from the lip towards the centre of the dish (about 28 cm).
Event Date 9/1/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: A small rectangular cream label pasted on the lip reads [printed in black ink:] 'Z-3339'. 'Z. 3339' inscribed in white ink at the back of the bowl, near the lug and near one of the leg.
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 ()
CON.2013.42 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa