vessel;
spittoon
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.714
- Description
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Wood (kou) vessel, light brown, with handle. Let into the bottom is a piece of wood bearing the incised number 9222 [Bishop Museum number?]
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Width: 22 centimetres
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Depth: 16.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Beasley catalogue information: 'Hawaiian spittoon of "kou" wood called ipu kuha. Originally from the Devrill collection. Acquired in exchange with the Bernice Pauahi Museum, Honolulu. Illust. in Bishop Museum Handbook pp.69,70 and Memoirs Vol.2, p.3
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1975 – 1985 12 Dec-23 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Hawaii
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Beasley catalogued 4.10.1910. Acquired by him through an exchange with the Bernice Pauahi Museum
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.714
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 526 (Original Beasley catalogue number)