Cup Item Number: C558 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Dark brown shell cut in half, twisted and woven handle attached to one side. Fan-shaped handle has two double longitudinal ridged rows. Shell has a point at the end with three equally spaced vertical ridges around the sides.
History Of Use
For drinking kava. According to Burnett, the coconut shell kava cups with fibre handles were used by chiefs and priests, "the handles being intended to prevent the fingers of the kava bearer being inserted in the liquor ...; also to enable a person under tabu to drink the yaqona without touching it or the cup."
Item History
- Made in Viti Levu, Fiji before 1927
- Collected between 1895 and 1927
- Owned by Frank Burnett before 1927
- Received from Frank Burnett (Donor) on July 25, 1927
What
- Name
- Cup
- Identification Number
- C558
- Type of Item
- cup
- Material
- coconut husk fibre and coconut nutshell
- Manufacturing Technique
- cut, woven and twisted
- Overall
- height 6.5 cm, width 21.0 cm, depth 11.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Fijian
- Previous Owner
- Frank Burnett
- Received from
- Frank Burnett (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Viti Levu, Fiji
When
- Creation Date
- before 1927
- Collection Date
- between 1895 and 1927
- Ownership Date
- before 1927
- Acquisition Date
- on July 25, 1927
Other
- Condition
- good
- Current Location
- Case 54
- Accession Number
- 2191/0911