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Ipu kava

human history
  • Description

    Ipu kava. A collection of seven coconut shell cups. These receptacles for kava drinking are cut and polished from mui'i niu, the lower half of a mature nge'esi niu (coconut shell. The ipu kava are dark brown in colour and of assorted size and diameter. They are stored in an accompanying netted bag made from kafa (coconut sennit).

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1983.131
  • Accession Date
    1983
  • Other Id

    50533 (ethnology)

  • Department
cup, kava, 1983.131, 50533, Cultural Permissions Apply

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