kava-cup
- Museum number
- Oc,+.4912
- Description
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Kava cup of coconut, coloured a delicate blue grey by the kava for which it has been used.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1891)
- Dimensions
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Height: 3 centimetres
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Width: 13 centimetres
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Depth: 12.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Christy Correspondence:
Letter Richard Blundell Comins/A W Franks, 15 January 1891
List of 'Melanesian curiosities' sent to BM - This item is presumably that listed as '...From Banks Islands. a cocoanut kava drinking cup. The enamel is deposited by the kava and is very easily scratched so I had it varnished over ...''
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 11 Nov-2011 27 Feb, London, Wellcome Trust, High Society
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Acquisition notes
- Register slip reads (for collection Oc+4894 to Oc+4920):
Presented by the Rev. R. B. Comins 12 Jany. 1891
Rev. Richard Comins was a missionary with the Anglican Melanesian Mission, in Solomon Islands from 1877 to 1903 and on Norfolk Island from 1904 to 1912.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.4912
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1891C2.4912 (old CDMS no.)