Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Fiji

 

Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Given to the Museum in 1884

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Bowl, Fiji

Some food dishes are made to be used by a specific type of person, often of high status. This shallow Fijian dish was made to be used by a priest. It is carved in the form of a human being. It was made some time before 1874.

View database record 1884.6.3