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Carved wooden kava bowl in an elongated oblong shape tapering to two pointed ends. Probably from Vanuatu. Kava is a drink used throughout the Pacific Islands for sacred, ceremonial and social purposes.
bowls (vessels)
wood (plant material)
Bowl
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
5 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3617
Vanuatu
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