Post #67795 by Kono on Mon, Jan 5, 2004 6:06 PM

On 2004-01-05 13:03, filslash wrote:
aloha,

On 2004-01-03 21:42, Basement Kahuna wrote:
That carved bowl is for serving Kava!

I beg to differ, BK... It's a knockoff of a dish in the Bishop Museum collection...

A (Pa ki'i) Serving Tray used for serving roast pork. The original was carved to commemorate a Maui Chief's (Kahekili) victory over an Oahu chief named Kahahana around 1785.

The figures supporting the tray represent Kahahana, and his wife.

That's seems more likely. The narrowness and the shallowness of the vessel wouldn't lend itself to using coconut cups to scoop out the kava. You think maybe this was sold out of the museum? Mmmmm...pork... The original, I assume, was much larger?

Kava King, I'm sorry to hear this. :(