Barkcloth (masi kesa)
This sizable barkcloth was probably hung over a rope or beam to serve as a room divider in a large house.
Presentation Whale Tooth (tabua buli)
Tabua buli are carved and polished into crescentic shapes.
Priest’s Yaqona Dish (ibuburau ni bete)
A heavy residue of yaqona in the interior of the dish remains from many years of use.
Double-Roofed Portable Temple (bure kalou) Fiji, early 19th century
This is the earliest known portable temple, a unique example with a double roof and small white shells resembling the larger egg cowrie shells, Ovula ovum, that decorated full-size temples.
Oil Dish (sedre ni waiwai)
This delta-wing-shaped dish has deposits of scented coconut oil in the shallow tray.
Anthropomorphic Yaqona Dish (dave ni yaqona)
Fewer than ten of these anthropomorphic dishes are known to survive in collections, and most examples evidence considerable age. It is not known if any of the dishes represent a named ancestral figure.