Anthropomorphic Yaqona Dish (dave ni yaqona)

Anthropomorphic Yaqona Dish (dave ni yaqona)

Fiji, early 19th century

Wood
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford: 1884.65.40
Collected by Captain Henry Denham, HMS Herald, 1854

EX.8785.190 Photo (c) Museum Associates/ LACMA

Fewer than ten of these anthropomorphic dishes are known to survive in collections, and most examples evidence considerable age. It is not known if any of the dishes represent a named ancestral figure.