Bowl "yaqona" · Fidji Islands · ID: 3034296
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Size
L: 15,5 cm
L: 6.1 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, leaf-shaped with bipartite spout, raised struts on the underside, habile handle, slightly dam., small missing parts (spout, struts, bottom);
originally used by a priest “daveniwaiwai” for “yaquona”, a beverage Fijian priests offered to the ancestral spirits.
The object Bowl “yaqona” with the object ID 3034296 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 62.
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Comparing literature
Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, München, London, New York 1999, p. 319