Fiji Priestly Pedestal Yaqona Dish

Provenance: Sotheby's, Londres, Important Tribal Art, 1 Dec. 1986, Lot 36.
Ex Kenneth John Hewett (1919-1994), Bog Farm, UK
Maurice Braham, London, UK
Sir Alistair McAlpine, Lord of Westgreen, UK, inv. N° M2272.
Sold Christies, Paris, 14 June, 2004, lot 66

Literature: See a very a similar example in the Museum of Anthropology, The University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Inv. N° C498.

See watercolor of pedestal kava dishes by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1837–1924).

Ref.:
• Clunie, Fergus: YALO i VITI. Fiji Museum, Suva. 1986.
• Ewins, Rod: FIJIAN ARTIFACTS, TASMANIAN MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY COLLECTION. Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery, Hobart. 1982.
• Hooper, Steven & Roth, Jane (ed): THE FIJI JOURNALS OF BARON ANATOL VON HÜGEL 1875-1877. Fiji Museum, Suva.
1990.
• Hooper, Steven :FIJI – Art & Life in the Pacific. Sainsbury Reaserch Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas.
University of East Anglica, Norwich, 2016