Bilo ni Yaqona
Bilo ni Yaqona. Coconut shell cup for yaqona (kava). Consisting of the cut lower half of a qa ni bilo (coconut shell). Pointed base with two holes drilled through with a thread of vau (hibiscus) threaded and looped through the holes. A cord of made of plant fibre is tied to the vau. The cord is also looped through a historical tag with "Kava cup belonging to kava bowl in wooden case" written across the tag in dark-coloured ink. Light-coloured markings visible across inner surface. The Bilo ni Yaqona is brown in colour.
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- Te reo Name
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Kava cup (English)
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- Description
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- Place
- Fiji
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- Accession Number
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1958.57.59
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27 May 1958
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35301 (ethnology)
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- Display Room
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