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Boat-shaped carved dish or kava bowl, front has bands of carved edges and the back has a bracket with two holes for hanging. Carved from a solid piece of wood. From Fiji, Samoa or Tonga, used to hold kava. Kava is a drink used for sacred, ceremonial and social purposes throughout the Pacific Islands..
dishes (vessels)
wood (plant material)
Dish
"SB M9" (paper label attached with string)
"12" (written on back of object)
Original To Stephen Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
Pacific Island Group
8 3/8 x 21 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.3623
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