Bilo ni Yaqona
human history
Bilo ni Yaqona. Coconut shell cup for yaqona (kava). Consisting of the cut lower half of a qa ni bilo (coconut shell), smoothed and polished on interior and exterior surfaces, with pointed base, and a magimagi (coconut sennit) handle termed the i tautauri ni bilo. The weave is finished with loose strips of magimagi, and two finely woven braids of magimagi with a knotted end. Brown in colour.
Accession number: 1950.128 Last Update: 20 Sept 2018
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Kava cup (English)
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- Fiji
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1950.128
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04 Jul 1950
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31633 (ethnology)
593g (Oldman Collection)
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