Bowl "yaqona"

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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.

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Comparing literature

Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, München, London, New York 1999, p. 319

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