IDNO

D.99048.GCUM


Description

"The lesson applied to home life."
"Vata (shelf) Kuru ni Viti (Fijian pots) Vako riri or Siva, small soup pots) lalakei (mat for vegetables. Sanga - water pot. tanoa - bowl. yams - raw and cooked."
"Cooking pots are made without any sort of wheel. from 2 to 3 feet deep and from 20 to 30 inches in diameter."


Place

Oceania Polynesia; Fiji


Cultural Affliation


Named Person


Photographer

Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica [Original Artist]


Collector / Expedition

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica


Date

circa 1876 - 1877


Collection Name

Gordon Cumming Collection


Source

?Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica


Format

Painting


Primary Documentation


Other Information

This album has been transferred from CUMMA’s Object Collections (original accession number Z 4151), into the Photographic Collections, and catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Program One.

D.99046.GCUM to D.99120.GCUM are in A.170.GCUM.


FM:233698

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