Fiji Priestly Sedre ni Waiwai Oil Dish Ex Bulmer coll.

Provenance: Provenance :
George Henry Bertram Bulmer (1902-1993) of "Little Breinton" house, Breinton, Hereford, UK, the director of Bulmer's Cider Co. and son of Edward (Fred) Bulmer. 
Ex London dealers Stothert & Trice.

George Henry (Bertram) Bulmer (1902-1993) was the eldest son of Edward Bulmer and Sophie Fredericka Rittner. He was a director of the Bulmer's Cider Co. for sixty-three years. There is no information on how, when, or why George Henry (Bertram) Bulmer owned this Fijian sacred oil or kava dish and one other. These were part of the entier contents of the « Little Breinton » house in Breinton, Hereford where Bulmer resided that was sold as « consigned from a residual house clearance from a property called " Little Breinton" Breinton, nr. Hereford. Offered at auction on Thursday 21st April, 2022, by RG & RB Williams Auctioneers at Ross Auction Centre, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire as « lots 320 a 19th c. wooden Polynesian ceremonial offering bowl and lot 321 early 20th c. or earlier Polynesian wooden bowl ».

Literature: See a very similar example in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge: 1931.213, collected by Alfred Maudslay, 1875–80.

Ref. :
CYCLOPEDIA of FIJI 1907. Reprint by Fiji Museum, Suva, 1984, p. 286
Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica) : AT HOME IN FIJI 1837-1924. Armstrong & son New York, 1883, p. 206.