Kava cup
Artist:
Samoa
Date: 1892-93
Medium: Coconut shell, lime
Classification: Containers
Credit Line: Gift of Carrie Ormsbee
Object number: 1927.1.27
DescriptionBrown, scraped smooth on outer surface, finely polished. Hole bored through muli end. Kava cups are made from the muli end of the coconut cut transversely. Through the projecting muli a transverse hole is bored, through which a sennit cord is usually attached. Outer surface incised with interlocking waves pattern, whitened with lime.
Engraved beneath rim: "TU.TU. GOA"
Engraved beneath rim: "TU.TU. GOA"
Not on view
In Collection(s)
Contact Us
- Staff Listing
- fleming@uvm.edu
- (802) 656-0750
- 61 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, Vermont 05405
Download a 
Gallery Map of the Fleming Museum of Art (PDF).