Kava bowl, from Fiji.

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Kava bowl, from Fiji.

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Te Manawa

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Te Manawa NZMuseums

Description

Round, four legged, kava bowl. Kava is used for medicinal, religious, political, cultural and social purposes throughout the Pacific. These cultures have a great respect for the plant and place a high importance on it. In Fiji, for example, a formal yaqona (kava) ceremony will often accompany important social, political, religious, etc. functions, usually involving a ritual presentation of the bundled roots as a sevusevu (gift), and drinking of the yaqona itself. Kava is a crop grown in the w...

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Date created

pre 1910

URL

https://ehive.com/collections/3032/objects/48514

Related subjects

Fiji / Mr J Brydon Speedy / Mrs Hirsch / cultural / medicinal / political / religious / social

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