Ritual Bowl - 67-5-3 | Collections

Native Name	Apira
Object Number:	67-5-3
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Solomon Islands Santa Ana, Solomon Islands Natagera
Section:	Oceanian
Materials:	Wood Shell Glass Pigment
Height:	23 cm
Length:	46.3 cm
Width:	17.2 cm
Credit Line:	William Kohler Expedition; William H. Davenport, 1967

Description

Ritual communion bowl (apira ni mwane). Full shark with bowl on top. Carver Taro of Natagera Village (deceased). Name of tutelary unknown. This bowl used in the Waumwaumwa cult. Shark figure on pedestal represents the transformation of the tutelary spirit (ataro).

Bibliography:

[Article] Davenport, William H. 1968. "Sculpture of the Eastern Solomons". Expedition: The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 10. no. 2. pg. 4-25 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 7 (No. 13)

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