Priest’s Yaqona Dish (ibuburau ni bete)

Priest’s Yaqona Dish (ibuburau ni bete)

Fiji, late 18th/early 19th century

Wood and coir
Lent by Mark and Carolyn Blackburn
EX.8785.233 photo courtesy of the Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

A heavy residue of yaqona in the interior of the dish remains from many years of use.