Container Item Number: C439 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A plain lower half of a dark brown coconut nutshell left in the husk with the upper half forming the handle with a hole in the middle and rim.
History Of Use
For water
Item History
- Made in Line Group, Kiribati before 1902
- Collected during 1902
- Owned by Frank Burnett before 1927
- Received from Frank Burnett (Donor) on July 25, 1927
What
- Name
- Container
- Identification Number
- C439
- Type of Item
- container
- Material
- coconut nutshell
- Manufacturing Technique
- cut and polished
- Overall
- height 12.8 cm, width 15.0 cm, depth 15.2 cm
Who
- Culture
- Eastern Polynesian
- Previous Owner
- Frank Burnett
- Received from
- Frank Burnett (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Line Group, Kiribati
When
- Creation Date
- before 1902
- Collection Date
- during 1902
- Ownership Date
- before 1927
- Acquisition Date
- on July 25, 1927
Other
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2191/0808