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Double-pointed wooden kava bowl likely from Vanuatu, in an elongated oblong shape with pointed ends. The bowl is serrated along the pointed ends and the serrations run about a quarter of the way down each side of the bowl. The drinking of kava has important religous, ceremonial and cultural significance to many Pacific Island cultures.
bowls (vessels)
wood (plant material)
Bowl, Libation
"3.5/Ucluse" (Second part of handwritten note "Ucluse" unreadable)
Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
4 7/8 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3613
Vanuatu
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