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An important pedestal inspirational kava dish or ibuburaunibete. This dish was used to contain the sacred kava or yaqona which the high priests used to sip through a straw prior to officiating and entering into a trance. The altered state of trance allowed the priest to communicate with the great spirits and the ancestors. The extremely flat round and rimmed platter is supported by twin vertical columns resting on a circular waisted, open-work base. Fiji, Polynesia. Vesi wood (Intsia bijuga) with a fine glossy patina (an old repaired break and a small old section restored). 42 Ø x 16 cm. 18th/19th century. Ex coll. : Sir Alister McAlpine, Lord of Westgreen, UK, inv. N° M2272. |
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