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Kava cup (ipu ava)
Artist:
Samoa
Date: 1892 - 93
Medium: Coconut Shell
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Carrie Ormsbee
Object number: 1979.27.8 LA
DescriptionUsed as a drinking cup by natives of Samoa, brought from Samoa by Ebeneser J. Ormsbee, Gov. of Vt., 1886 - 1888. U.S. land commissioner in Samoa, 1891 - 1893.
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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