Ritual Bowl - 67-5-4 | Collections

Native Name	Apira
Object Number:	67-5-4
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Solomon Islands Santa Ana, Solomon Islands Natagera
Section:	Oceanian
Materials:	Wood Shell Pigment
Height:	28.4 cm
Length:	57.5 cm
Width:	13 cm
Credit Line:	William Kohler Expedition; William H. Davenport, 1967

Description

Ritual communion bowl (apira ni mwane). Bird body bowl, curved garfish underneath. This bowl used in the Waumwaumwa cult at Natagera. Carver: Piringimataua (deceased). Tutelary unknown. Compare with Illustration 98 in Bernatzik, Owa Raha (1936) which may be the same bowl - or this one is a replacement of that bowl.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Year of Data - Living with the Sea: Charting the Pacific (28 Aug 2020)

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Bibliography:

[Article] Davenport, William H. 1968. "Sculpture of the Eastern Solomons". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 10. no. 2. pg. 4-25 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 7 (No. 11)

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