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Saqa Tabua

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  • Ingoa Kē

    Water vessel (English)

    Saqa tabua (Fijian)

    Saqa drua (Fijian)

  • Kupu whakaahua

    Saqa Tabua. Double 'twin' container water vessel. Made from qele (clay) with Wa ni Tabua (crossover handle) with hole cut out at the centre top. There is a hole on the centre-top of container, and an i gaga (pouring spout) on the end of a container. Somuna (raised applique spots) decorate the waist of the spherical containers, with two 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).

  • Wāhi
  • Rā Tāpiringa
    1870
  • Tohu Tuakiri Kē

    11799 (ethnology)

  • Wāhanga
Saqa ni wai, 11799, Photographed by Andrew Hales, digital,… … Read more

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