Early 19th century
Height 8 3/4" Length 47"
Provenance: Wayne Heathcoate, Cambridge, UK
Private collection, New Zealand
According to Kaeppler (Blackburn Collection, 2010: p 304, fig 339), these bowls "may have been a medicine bowl ('umete ra'au moa), in which herbal potions were mixed and consecrated on the marae, or a special 'ava bowl."
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Early 19th century
Height 8 3/4" Length 47"
Provenance: Wayne Heathcoate, Cambridge, UK
Private collection, New Zealand
According to Kaeppler (Blackburn Collection, 2010: p 304, fig 339), these bowls "may have been a medicine bowl ('umete ra'au moa), in which herbal potions were mixed and consecrated on the marae, or a special 'ava bowl."
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