Fijian Vessel

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
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