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Saqa Tabua

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  • Other Name

    Saqa drua (Fijian)

    Water vessel (English)

  • Description

    Saqa Tabua. Double 'twin' container water vessel. Made from qele (clay) with Wa ni Tabua (crossover handle) with a hole cut out at the centre top. An orifice is on the centre-top of a container, with an i gaga (pouring spout) on the end of a container. Somuna (decorative spots of applied qele) decorate the waist of the spherical containers, with single rows extending across the centre-top of the spherical containers.

    Incisions decorate the handle and tops of the spherical containers. Outer surface coated with makadre (resin from the Dakua tree).

  • Place
    Fiji
  • Accession Date
    1870
  • Other Id

    12577 (ethnology)

    2577 (ethnology)

  • Department

    Pacific

Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply

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  • Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply
  • Saqa Tabua, 12577, 2577, Cultural Permissions Apply
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  • water vessel
  • water vessel
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  • water vessel
  • water vessel
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