Apira ngaungau (eating bowl)

Maker
Taisupaina
Description
This plain eating bowl (apira ngaungau) has decorative lugs at the ends. It is not ornate, suggesting that it was for domestic use, rather than for sale to visitors.
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Object detail

Maker
Media/Materials
Wood and pigment
Measurements
140 x 485 x 27 5mm (HxWxD)
Production place
Moli, Ulawa, Solomon Islands
Collection
Mead Collection/Solomon Island/Ethnology
Department collection type
Ethnology
Credit line
Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Accession number
1973/49/4

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