Pot Item Number: Ih215 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Egg-shaped cooking pot with small opening and short neck. There are three horizontal rings of dots incised around the lower neck. Signature is etched below the dots. Overall yellow-green with red-orange and black areas. Painted and glazed only in inner ring of mouth region. Rounded bottom.
History Of Use
Before European contact pottery was the basis of an extensive trade network. Cooking pots were highly prized trade items, exchanged over long distances. The pottery was made by women throughout the larger islands. Glazing was not universal, but open firing was. This cooking pot was used for boiling vegetables and other foods for large scale food preparation.
Specific Techniques
Pottery made by slab or coiled construction. Glazed by resin from the kaluri (pine) tree, called dakua resin. It is rubbed on the pot while it is still warm from firing. This pot was made by slab construction by Yawe potters at Kadavu.
Cultural Context
cooking
Item History
- Made in Nadroga-Navosa, Fiji before 1959
- Collected during 1959
- Owned by Cyril S. Belshaw before November 10, 1981
- Received from Cyril S. Belshaw (Donor) on November 10, 1981
What
Who
- Culture
- Fijian
- Previous Owner
- Cyril S. Belshaw
- Received from
- Cyril S. Belshaw (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Nadroga-Navosa, Fiji
When
- Creation Date
- before 1959
- Collection Date
- during 1959
- Ownership Date
- before November 10, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on November 10, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics
- Condition
- fair
- Current Location
- Case 54
- Accession Number
- 0753/0002 a