i Cula ni Bokola

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i Cula ni Bokola. Flesh fork. The i Cula ni Bokola is carved from solid kau (wood) into a long slender form consisting of three long straight prongs, and a long cylindrical handle that is finished to a point at the butt. At the base of the prongs, the wood is carved into notches around its circumference, and this is repeated at two points on the handle end towards the butt. The wood is brown in colour and weathered in surface; it has been left unpolished.

Accession number: 1946.178 Last Update: 20 Sept 2018
Other Name

Human flesh fork (English)

Place
Fiji
Accession Number

1946.178

Accession Date

1946

Other Id

28923 (ethnology)

Department

Pacific

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