Container Item Number: C24 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Dark brown fibre is braided to form a net sling holder for the brown shell. The shell is rounded, has three equally spaced vertical ridges, and comes to a point at the end where the netting is open. The netting has an open lattice-work pattern and comes up around the rounded part of the shell extending into long braided strips which are knotted and braided together at the end.
History Of Use
For water
Item History
- Made in Savai'i, Samoa before 1927
- Collected between 1895 and 1927
- Owned by Frank Burnett before 1927
- Received from Frank Burnett (Donor) on July 25, 1927
What
- Name
- Container
- Identification Number
- C24
- Type of Item
- container
- Material
- fibre and coconut nutshell
- Manufacturing Technique
- braided
- Overall
- height 17.0 cm, diameter 15.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Samoan
- Previous Owner
- Frank Burnett
- Received from
- Frank Burnett (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Savai'i, Samoa
When
- Creation Date
- before 1927
- Collection Date
- between 1895 and 1927
- Ownership Date
- before 1927
- Acquisition Date
- on July 25, 1927
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2191/0457