Fiji Pottery Water Vessel

Provenance: Provenance :
Reportedly the collection of Harry G. Beasley (1882-1939), Cranemore, UK, 1897, N° 553. Bears an unverified paper label with cut corners indicating in handwritting : « ----ly Collection, 553, --jin Islands, -- pottery bottle, --- ALP : 114, 9-1-97 ».

Literature: See similar examples in the Fiji Museum, Suva, the Smithsonian Institute, The Peabody Museum, Harvard, The Museum of Anthropologiy and Archeology, Cambridge, Musée d'Ethnographie, Geneva, and the Auckland War Memorial Museum.