Pottery water vessel, or Saqa
Tabua in the form of the sacred spermwhale tooth, the tabua
Fiji islands, western Polynesia
19th century
Low fired clay and vegetal resin
Height: 16,3 cm
Provenance: harry g. Beasley, Cranemore, uk, 1897, n° 553.
Bears a paper label with cut corners indicating in handwritting : « ----ly Collection, 553, --jin Islands, -- pottery bottle, --- ALP : 114, 9-1-97 »
Object Presented by:
Anthony J.P. Meyer
T.: + 33 (0) 6 80 10 80 22
