container, coconut shell, woven cover, plaited handles; empty coconut shell with section cut out of top to form open container, woven cover of bleached outer surface of young coconut leaves, with lid and braided handle; Mrs Morris is unsure if she obtained the container in Samoa in 1930-5 when she attended school there, or in 1983 when she visited the Cook Islands.

55410 (ethnology)

Pacific