Fiji Libation Cup or Bilo for Kava

Provenance: Provenance:
“Huize Loreto”, the monastery of the Marist Fathers, Lievelde, the Netherlands, N° 123B.

Literature: Ref.:
Clunie, Fergus: YALO i VITI. Fiji Museum, Suva. 1986.
 
Yaqona soon became a nightly institution, a matted room was set apart for the purpose, where a number of the Native Constabulary prepared the drink and chanted their songs the while. The Governor frequently entertained some of the chiefs at yaqona, and the room being also used as a smoke room, these meetings were mostly very successful… (extract from Anatole von Hügel’s Journal, 3-8 August 1875.)